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In this opinion I am sustained by so eminent an authority as Chancellor Kent, who, after setting forth the usage, proceeds to express his dissent from it as a just construction of the National Constitution.
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Sumner cites Chancellor Kent as supporting his view on the interpretation of the National Constitution.
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