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Remove this license, and the Constitution, rightly interpreted, will do the rest.
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Sumner argues that removing the license for slavery will allow the Constitution to uphold freedom.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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