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As in the Nation there can be but one sovereignty, so there can be but one citizenship.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “As in the Nation there can be but one sovereignty, so there can be but one citizenship.”
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Sumner asserts that true sovereignty and citizenship are unified concepts within a nation.
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