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To attribute to them any such power is to go beyond the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To attribute to them any such power is to go beyond the Constitution.”
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Sumner argues that attributing treaty abrogation power to the Senate exceeds constitutional limits.
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