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Nor can they be treated as profession and nothing more, so that the Constitution shall merely seem to be republican, reversing the old injunction, “To be rather than to seem,”--Esse quam videri.
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Sumner warns against treating the Constitution as a mere facade, advocating for genuine adherence to its republican principles.
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