Charles Sumner: “I might say, that, in misapplying the text of the Constitution, you…”

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I might say, that, in misapplying the text of the Constitution, you sacrifice the Constitution itself.

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Sumner cautions that misapplying constitutional text can lead to sacrificing the Constitution itself.

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Charles Sumner: “I might say, that, in misapplying the text of the Constitution, you sacrifice the Constitution itself.”