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It is like an obsolete statute, which we read in the statute-book, but never adduce for authority.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is like an obsolete statute, which we read in the statute-book, but never adduce for authority.”
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Sumner compares the expired Enabling Act to an obsolete statute.
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