Charles Sumner: “The President, notwithstanding his beneficent power to pardon, under…”

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The President, notwithstanding his beneficent power to pardon, under the Constitution, will be powerless to remedy this evil.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the President's constitutional power to pardon is insufficient to address the injustices faced by prisoners.

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Charles Sumner: “The President, notwithstanding his beneficent power to pardon, under the Constitution, will be powerless to remedy this…”