Charles Sumner: “Military power may govern during the war; but it is impotent to make a…”

On the record

Military power may govern during the war; but it is impotent to make a republican State, or to adopt an Amendment of the Constitution.

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner asserts that military authority cannot establish a true republican government or amend the Constitution.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “Military power may govern during the war; but it is impotent to make a republican State, or to adopt an Amendment of the…”