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The Senator from New York was right in rejecting all appeal to precedents as entirely irrelevant; for the power invoked is clear and express in the Constitution, which is above all precedent.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The Senator from New York was right in rejecting all appeal to precedents as entirely irrelevant; for the power invoked…”
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Sumner supports the idea that the Constitution's authority supersedes historical precedents in the matter of state admission.
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