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Provisional governments must be constituted as temporary substitutes for the illegal governments, with special authority to superintend the transition to permanent governments republican in form.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Provisional governments must be constituted as temporary substitutes for the illegal governments, with special authority…”
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Sumner advocates for the establishment of provisional governments to facilitate the transition to permanent republican governments.
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