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The State is not humbled, when it receives the mandate of the Nation to do no wrong; nor can the Nation err, when it asserts everywhere within its borders the imperialism of Human Rights.
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Sumner states that the nation is justified in enforcing human rights without diminishing the state's dignity.
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