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But if there be no such power, all national legislation upholding Slavery must be unconstitutional and void.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But if there be no such power, all national legislation upholding Slavery must be unconstitutional and void.”
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Sumner argues that any law supporting slavery is unconstitutional if the government lacks the power to enforce it.
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