This judgment is a torch to illumine the Constitution, while it shows how naturally our fathers in the great Declaration said, “All men,” and not “All white men,” and in the Constitution said, “We the people,” and not “We the white people.
Sumner uses the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to argue against racial discrimination.
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