Then I reply: We are not called to sit in judgment on those constitutions; we have no power to revise them; we are not to vote upon them; but we are called to sit in judgment upon this constitution, to revise it, and to vote upon it.
Sumner clarifies the role of the Senate in judging and revising the constitution at hand.
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