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I have looked in vain among the powers delegated to Congress by the Constitution for any general authority to that body to legislate on this subject.
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Sumner argues that Congress lacks the constitutional authority to legislate on certain subjects.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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