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Charles Sumner: “No one man by ipse dixit can establish the test of fidelity to the party.”

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No one man by ipse dixit can establish the test of fidelity to the party.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner states that no individual can unilaterally define loyalty to the party.

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