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To: DiogenesLamp
He was the beginning of the Imperial Presidency, and of Federal Supremacy. He was the first to violate or ignore constitutional law to get what he wanted.

How so. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was carefully constructed so it did not usurp the courts or the Constitution. It only applied to areas in rebellion which the Militia Act of 1797 gave him every constitutional right to do.

George Washington surly didn't think that when he put down the Whiskey Rebellion. Are you saying that a President today should be powerless to put down a rebellion?

96 posted on 09/24/2012 8:20:25 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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To: Ditto
How so. Even the Emancipation Proclamation was carefully constructed so it did not usurp the courts or the Constitution. It only applied to areas in rebellion which the Militia Act of 1797 gave him every constitutional right to do.

I think Seward disagreed with you.

"We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."

George Washington surly didn't think that when he put down the Whiskey Rebellion. Are you saying that a President today should be powerless to put down a rebellion?

No more so than a King confronting a Rebellion in his Colonies. Washington established the right of a people to break away from a government which they felt no longer served their interests, and Lincoln dis-established it.

Call it Rebellion, or secession, or whatever, it is still the same principle involved. The Nation was established by declaring it's right to self governance, but apparently it doesn't recognize that right as applying to anyone else.

110 posted on 09/24/2012 8:59:50 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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