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I challenge history for another instance of equal absurdity in legal pretension.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I challenge history for another instance of equal absurdity in legal pretension.”
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Sumner boldly challenges the validity of a legal argument, asserting its absurdity in the context of history.
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