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Whatever is needed for the suppression of the Rebellion and the establishment of safeguards against its recurrence is constitutional.
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Sumner argues that any necessary actions to suppress rebellion are constitutional, highlighting the flexibility of the Constitution in times of crisis.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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