Charles Sumner: “When set up for the safeguard of the weak, they are respectable, but…”

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When set up for the safeguard of the weak, they are respectable, but on impeachments they are intolerable.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that while legal safeguards for the weak are important, they become unacceptable in impeachment cases.

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Charles Sumner: “When set up for the safeguard of the weak, they are respectable, but on impeachments they are intolerable.”