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The republican Constitution of 1791 was not founded upon numbers only, but upon numbers, territory, and taxation combined,--a mixed system, which excluded the true idea of personal equality.
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Sumner critiques the republican Constitution of 1791 for its failure to embody true personal equality by relying on a mixed system.
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