Charles Sumner: “It cannot be treated according to the ordinary rule; it is a new case…”

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It cannot be treated according to the ordinary rule; it is a new case, and to meet it we must make a new precedent.

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Massachusetts

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He asserts that new situations necessitate the creation of new rules or precedents.

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Charles Sumner: “It cannot be treated according to the ordinary rule; it is a new case, and to meet it we must make a new precedent.”