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To: capitan_refugio
It does not apply to a situation in a war zone.

Exactly what don't you understand about "at all times and under all circumstances," capitan? There is no qualifier there of any form. No "war zone" exception. No "doctrine of necessity" exception. Nothing. The Constitution is SUPREME over all other authorities, civil or military, and none has the right to shun so much as one word of its text on the whims of convenience.

1,380 posted on 09/18/2004 12:25:03 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist
"The Constitution is SUPREME over all other authorities, civil or military, and none has the right to shun so much as one word of its text on the whims of convenience."

The South seemed to shun the Constitution at its convenience.

1,472 posted on 09/18/2004 11:20:54 PM PDT by capitan_refugio
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