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The whole pretension is a discredit to the jurisprudence of the country.
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Sumner critiques the legal system's integrity in relation to a specific act.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
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