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Thus it is obviously a curtailment of Executive power, which I insist has become our bounden duty.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Thus it is obviously a curtailment of Executive power, which I insist has become our bounden duty.”
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Sumner argues for reducing executive power as a necessary duty.
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