Charles Sumner: “Congress, when once assembled by virtue of that resolution, has all…”

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Congress, when once assembled by virtue of that resolution, has all the powers of a Congress of the United States under the Constitution.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that once Congress is assembled, it retains all constitutional powers.

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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

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Charles Sumner: “Congress, when once assembled by virtue of that resolution, has all the powers of a Congress of the United States under…”