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Alliances, leagues, and confederations were ineffectual against State pretensions.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Alliances, leagues, and confederations were ineffectual against State pretensions.”
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Sumner discusses the ineffectiveness of alliances in the face of state ambitions.
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