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Charles Sumner: “Whatever is required for the national safety is constitutional.”

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Whatever is required for the national safety is constitutional.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner asserts that actions taken for national safety are in accordance with the Constitution.

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