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How, in the face of these provisions, any person can doubt the power of Congress I cannot understand.
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Sumner expresses confusion over any doubts regarding Congress's power given the constitutional provisions.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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