On the record
If the Constitution knows none, it is clearly no part of the duty of a Republican Congress now to institute one.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If the Constitution knows none, it is clearly no part of the duty of a Republican Congress now to institute one.”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that it is not the role of Congress to create distinctions that the Constitution does not recognize.
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