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In form it has been openly disregarded; in substance it has been insulted.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In form it has been openly disregarded; in substance it has been insulted.”
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Sumner points out that the Enabling Act has been both openly disregarded and insulted in substance.
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