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Charles Sumner: “Then must every word in the Constitution be interpreted so that Liberty and Equality shall not fail.”

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Then must every word in the Constitution be interpreted so that Liberty and Equality shall not fail.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the Constitution must be interpreted to uphold liberty and equality.

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