Charles Sumner: “Surely an aristocracy, “where the sovereign power is in the hands of…”

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Surely an aristocracy, “where the sovereign power is in the hands of part of the people,” cannot find a just place in our political system.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that an aristocracy cannot fit within the American political framework.

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