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Charles Sumner: “As well find danger in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself, which speak with central power; as…”

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As well find danger in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself, which speak with central power; as well find danger in those central laws which govern the moral and material world, binding men together in society and keeping the planets wheeling in their orbits.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner compares the dangers of central power in governance to the natural laws that bind society.

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