Therefore personal government in all its forms, and especially when it seeks to sway the action of any other branch or overturn its constitutional negative, is hostile to the first principles of republican institutions, and an unquestionable outrage.
Sumner warns that personal government undermines the foundational principles of republican institutions.
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