Charles Sumner: “What right, under the Constitution, has this General to set himself up…”

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What right, under the Constitution, has this General to set himself up as judge in cases of human freedom?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the authority of a General to make judgments regarding human freedom under the Constitution.

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Charles Sumner: “What right, under the Constitution, has this General to set himself up as judge in cases of human freedom?”