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To prohibit Congress from doing one of these things, and to permit it to do the other, is straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel,--a whole caravan of camels!
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Mann uses a metaphor to critique the inconsistency in allowing Congress to legislate on slavery while prohibiting other actions.
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