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The pretension of Popular Sovereignty is altogether a modern invention, unknown to our fathers.
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Sumner critiques the concept of Popular Sovereignty, arguing it is a modern invention not recognized by the Founding Fathers.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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