This instructive statement is in admirable harmony with the rule, as declared in early times, that those “against the thing” cannot go on the committee,--and that a measure, like a child, is not put to a nurse that cares not for it.
Sumner illustrates the principle that those opposed to a measure should not be on its committee.
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