He admits that the states have surrendered the power to make treaties, coin money, and regulate commerce, and yet we will probably have the novel and ridiculous farce of a negotiation between the President and a state, for the surrender of forts, and arsenals, and sovereignty.
Sherman points out the absurdity of negotiating with states over military control despite their loss of certain powers.
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That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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