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Thus, when this clause took its place in the Constitution, nem. con., it was clearly a cipher.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Thus, when this clause took its place in the Constitution, nem. con., it was clearly a cipher.”
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Sumner describes a clause in the Constitution as essentially meaningless or a cipher.
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