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To: BlackElk
Well, you certainly are not inspired to respond to factual and legal arguments.

There weren't much to be found in your post. But if you insist...

NOTHING IN THE CONSTITUTION authorized:

1) A military draft; - the Constitution gives Congress the power to raise and support armies in Article I, Section 8. Congress passed conscription laws to do that, and the Constitutionality of conscription has been upheld by the Supreme Court in any number of cases stretching from the 1860's to the 1960's.

2) A federal income tax; - I'll give you that one although the constitutionality of the tax wasn't decided until long after the war was over. So if your claim is that Lincoln deliberately violated the constitution by enacting one then your claim is baseless.

3) A military invasion of South Carolina and other states; - I would point out that had South Carolina and the other states not launched their rebellion then there wouldn't have been reason to invade anything. But for South Carolina to complain about the Union invasion is as ridiculous for Japan to complain about the U.S. invasion in 1945.

4) The ridiculous claim that a state, having joined the Union voluntarily, could not secede from the Union just as voluntarily as eleven states did; - exceeded only by the ridiculous claim that states can walk out without consulting the other states, leaving behind responsibility for debt and other obligations the nation entered into while they were a part, and taking every bit of property they could get their hands on and there was nothing the other states could do but sit still and take it.

5) The jailing of state legislators in Maryland who were believed to be intending to vote for secession; - that happened in September 1861 when the Southern states were rebelling against the government and the Maryland legislature wanted to join said rebellion. My question to you is what would you expect the authorities to do?

6) The suspension of the constitutional right to petition the courts for writs of habeas corpus; - a power that is allowed by Article I, Section 9 in cases of rebellion or invasion when the public safety requires it.

7) The jailing without trial of opposition newspaper editors, see the SCOTUS decision in Ex Parte McCardle; - this one makes no sense at all because the McCardle decision wasn't handed down until 1869 and McCardle was detained in 1867. I know you all will attribute every possible evil to Lincoln but I didn't know his evil powers extended from the grave.

8) The smashing of the presses of the New York Daily News for opposing Lincoln's tyranny and policies; - you have me at a disadvantage since I can't find anything supporting this claim.

9) The US Naval bombardment of the civilian population of New York City's Manhattan. - that's what happens when you depend on Gangs of New York for your sources.

10) It took SCOTUS years to clean up Lincoln's constitutional mess after he was shot under the remarkably candid and honest leadership of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase of Ohio who had been Lincoln's Secretary of Treasury before Lincoln appointed him to succeed Roger Taney in the middle of the war to resurrect Hamiltonianism. - Yeah well whatever.

330 posted on 07/06/2015 3:52:14 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
3) A military invasion of South Carolina and other states; - I would point out that had South Carolina and the other states not launched their rebellion then there wouldn't have been reason to invade anything. But for South Carolina to complain about the Union invasion is as ridiculous for Japan to complain about the U.S. invasion in 1945.

The Japanese killed around 3,000 US Servicemen and did Billions of dollars worth of damage to our Assets, and then proceeded to threaten our allies and other foreign assets.

The confederates shelled some rocks, killed no one, and did it all on their own land.

You do something very ugly when you make such bald faced lying comparisons. What the Japanese did is orders of magnitude worse than what the Confederates did.

335 posted on 07/06/2015 4:03:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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