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To: GOPcapitalist

Humor me. Name the "great parts" Lincoln "suspended."


1,490 posted on 09/19/2004 2:03:21 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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To: capitan_refugio
Name the "great parts" Lincoln "suspended."

The writ of habeas corpus

The first amendment via suppressing dissenting newspapers

The second amendment via widespread gun confiscation

The doctrine of the separation of powers via harassment of the judiciary

Splitting a state, Virginia, without its consent

Instituting an income tax

Amendments 4, 5, and 6 through the suspension of the civil authority

...and those are just a few of them.

1,518 posted on 09/19/2004 11:20:23 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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