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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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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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