Charles Sumner: “The failure in form may be pardoned; the failure in substance must be…”

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The failure in form may be pardoned; the failure in substance must be fatal, unless in some way corrected by Congress.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that failures in substance of the Enabling Act are critical and need correction by Congress.

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Charles Sumner: “The failure in form may be pardoned; the failure in substance must be fatal, unless in some way corrected by Congress.”