[Skooz]

Oh, no. Here it comes..........

[RAY]

Seems to be another case of the "end justifying the means" -- wasn't the recent Nazi and communistic approach and justification for their many unjust acts.

Who, in the federal government, has the authority to declare marshal law?

[RebelBanker]

Morning, SB!

Here's your Dixie wake-up call. Thanks, Tex!

Deo Vindice!

[Drammach]

Abe also instituted an Income Tax, which was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court..

History never ceases to amaze me..

[Common Tator]

We are a nation of the people, by the people and for the people.

Because the people supported it, Lincoln could get away with suspending habeas corpus.

Because the people opposed it, Nixon could not get away with the far less serious crime of breaking and entering.

What most people fail to understand is that words on paper in a document called the Constitution have never had any finite meaning.

Thus if the people support going to war in Iraq it does not matter what authority or lack of authority exists. As long as the people support it, Bush has all the authority he needs. When the people no longer support a president, he could follow every rule perfectly, but if enough of the public were against him, he would still be impeached and convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Of the people, by the people, and for the people.. says it all

[Non-Sequitur]

Another Tommy DiLusional POS? You forgot the barf alert.

[4CJ]

DiLorenzo is great.

You'd think he reads FreeRepublic.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Wow, stuff we weren't taught in 5th grade, back in '59.

[joesnuffy]

Yes but imagine had he lived what he would have accomplished.....

[steplock]

To put it in the most simplest terms (most simplest?) ...

WAR is HELL! and Lincoln did what HE thought was best for the country.

Since the north won, history is kind to the victor.

If the south had succeeded in upholding the Constitution of the United States as written, Lincoln would have been hanged as the real traitor.

[4CJ]

Regarding the unlawful detention of Judge Merrick, Judge Dunlop wrote this:

The President, charged by the Constitution to take care that the laws be executed, has seen fit to arrest the process of this Court, and to forbid the Deputy Marshal to execute it. It does not involve merely the question of the power of the Executive in civil war to suspend the great writ of freedom, the habeas corpus. When this rule was ordered to give efficiency to that writ, no notice had been given by the President to the Courts of the country of such suspension here, now first announced to us, and it will hardly be maintained that the suspension could be retrospective.

[jimt]

Excellent post !

[Casloy]

Let's see, secession brought on the single biggest constitutional crisis in the country's history, but it was Lincoln who is the bad guy. Still got too many confederates in the attic.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Yep all you chilluns bow down to the Great massah in Washington.

Lincoln started it, others will continue it.

[Countyline]

Thanks for this article. It is very interesting.

[ApesForEvolution]

BTTT

[Casloy]

The South lost the war, GET OVER IT.

[Quix]

I see the

'Lincoln whipping guys'

are still at it.

I hope you're not trying to sell a book, too.

Sigh.

[Publius6961]

Imagine that he is so demonized that President Bush is emboldened to issue an arrest warrant for the chief justice, effectively destroying the constitutional separation of powers and declaring himself dictator.

Ummmmmmmmmm. I stopped reading right here.

I knew the author was referring to Lincoln, and since my country is not presently led by Abraham Lincoln VII, I knew what follows is the product of heroin or an AIDS-addled mind.

Where do these people come from?

[Leatherneck_MT]

Lincoln was first and foremost a Traitor to the very constitution he had sworn to uphold and defend.