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And yet, Sir, the Constitution is cited as a limitation upon these rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And yet, Sir, the Constitution is cited as a limitation upon these rights.”
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Sumner emphasizes the limitations imposed by the Constitution on individual rights.
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