Charles Sumner: “And shall our Republic, founded on knowledge, whose duty and mission…”

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And shall our Republic, founded on knowledge, whose duty and mission are to make knowledge cheap, impose, for the first time, a tax on books?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues against the imposition of a tax on books, emphasizing the importance of knowledge in a republic.

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Charles Sumner: “And shall our Republic, founded on knowledge, whose duty and mission are to make knowledge cheap, impose, for the first…”