I know that there is another deceptive clause which seems to throw certain safeguards around the election of delegates to the Convention, when that Convention shall be ordered by the Legislature; but out of this very clause do I draw judgment against the Usurpation which the bill recognizes.
Sumner critiques a clause that appears to protect election safeguards but ultimately supports the usurpation of power.
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