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Was it constitutional for Lincoln to invade the South?

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12 Apr 2009, 7:57 pm

pakled wrote:

Lincoln had plenty of 'extra-judicial' acts, including suspending habeus corpus during the woah...;)

"Why is it when Presidents want to start a war they always quote Lincoln?" - 2010...;)


The courts later upheld Lincoln's action with respect to habeus corpus.

When you are President you can do anything you want -- Lora Roslyn from Battlestar Galactica.

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