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On this important question I discard all theory, whether of State suicide, or State forfeiture, or State abdication, on the one side, or of State Rights, immortal and unimpeachable, on the other side.
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Sumner rejects both sides of a theoretical debate regarding state rights and state forfeiture, advocating for a practical approach.
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