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In reply I borrowed the language of Andrew Jackson, and announced, that, often as I had taken that oath, I had taken it always to support the Constitution as I understood it; and it is so now.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “In reply I borrowed the language of Andrew Jackson, and announced, that, often as I had taken that oath, I had taken it…”
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Sumner invokes Andrew Jackson's words to express his unwavering commitment to the Constitution as he interprets it.
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