Not on any such ground do I present this amendment, but simply and distinctly on the duty of equalizing this burden, that it shall bear, so far as we can make it, with something like equality upon the rich and the poor.
Sumner presents his amendment based on the principle of equalizing the burden of taxation between the rich and the poor.
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