Posted on 11/13/2004 11:12:00 AM PST by LouAvul
You can chant your Blue State radical liberal judicial revisionism all you want, but the actual law, and the actual judicial opinion rendered in the case will continue to say you are full of crap. The opinion is quite specific in holding that the rules of war did not apply. Not even the government tried to maintain that line of B.S.
The chief justice then proceeded as follows:'I ordered this attachment yesterday, because, upon the face of the return, the detention of the prisoner was unlawful, upon the grounds:
1. That the president, under the constitution of the United States, cannot suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, nor authorize a military officer to do it.
2. A military officer has no right to arrest and detain a person not subject to the rules and articles of war, for an offence against the laws of the United States, except in aid of the judicial authority, and subject to its control; and if the party be arrested by the military, it is the duty of the officer to deliver him over immediately to the civil authority, to be dealt with according to law. It is, therefore, very clear that John Merryman, the petitioner, is entitled to be set at liberty and discharged immediately from imprisonment. I forbore yesterday to state orally the provisions of the consitution of the United States, which make those principles the fundamental law of the Union, because an oral statement might be misunderstood in some portions of it, and I shall therefore put my opinion in writing, and file it in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, in the course of this week.'
At a cabinet meeting on April 14, 1865, Lincoln advised the cabinet that wanted to return all the states back to normal relations before the Congress was able to come back into session. He instructed an irritated Stanton that Virginia was a special case and required special treatment. (Virginia was a special case because the U.S. government had recognized a Virginia government throughout the war.)
Naturally the insane, bloodthirsty radicals were incensed. After the bloodbath they had caused, one more life was cheap. Lincoln was shot that night. The radicals celebrated. Tough breah, huh?
Booth's originally intact diary after Edwin Stanton got done with it.
Pics of Booth's ladies removed from his diary. The New York Daily Tribune, April 24, 1865, reported: "Assassin's Coat Found ... A detective of the War Department returned from Virginia Sunday night with an ulsterette belonging to the assassin.... in the pockets were his personal papers." The glass plates of the women's photos, prepared at the Army Medical Museum photo laboratory and each with Dr. Edward Curtis's initials and the telltale date plainly visible.
Indeed. Jealousy, do you think?
So?
That is the right for revolution not secession.
I see you are battling strawman again.
Your writing skills impress me. I'm awed.
Lincoln got off easy. He should have been tried and hung as a war criminal.
Yours did. Se we can do it too. We can all go on slinging personal vindictives until the abuse button gets pushed again, and another 2000+ posts disappear. How 'bout we simply stick to honest debate?
Actually, they did have to demonstrate that the Articles of Confederation were a failure and thus the relationship between the States needed to be stronger if they were to survive as a People.
The argument by the anti-federalists was that the Articles could be modified but did not have to be scrapped.
As for a 'revolution'well it was certainly a radical change.
And not every revolution has to be violent, as shown by the glorious revolution.
The people in the aggregate do absolutely nothing under the Constitutional government. The constitutional government was formed after eleven ratifications were agreed upon. There were not millions of ratifications, but one for each state. The people organized themselves by state, and they acted by state. Each such group of people acted independently of the other twelve groups.
The People send representives of their states to Washington to represent them, and that is how their voice is heard at the Federal level.
The sovereigns have the right of change of their government. They do not need to stage a revolution to exercise their rights. They need not justify the exercise of their rights to anyone. If they have the right to do something, that have that right even if exercising it would be an act of gross stupidity. They can exericise their rights for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all.
Well, once agreed upon the People had commited themselves to a Union.
The People were now more strongly People of the United States, not only People of the various states.
One was important as the other and just as the People of the United States could not reject reject the People of any state or states, so the People of the states (in any combination) could not reject the People of United States as such.
Any other interpretation is simply anarchy, with the potential of every level of gov't seceding from one another (towns from counties, counties from States, States from the Federal gov't.)
Sounds conservative to me!
Spoken like a true oppressor.
What part of distinct, independent sovereigns don't you understand? The colonists had just thrown off one oppressive central government (Britain). What makes you think they wanted to turn everything over to another central government without strong checks on its power? Why should they set it up so that they would have to go through another Revolutionary War in order to free themselves of central government oppression? They were smarter than that.
Go figure. I wouldn't have figured now that Fumblepepper learned to hold onto the ball, he had to find a new and exciting way to give it away. Chicago D came up huge and won it.
I had no idea that my great-grandfather knew both Calvin Coolidge and Warren Harding personally. Nor did I know that both former presidents lived in Strawberry Point, IA.
we of the SCV plan to cover dixie with our battleflag. those DUMB enough to believe the LIARS on the left can stay home & good riddance!
FYI, i fly the 3d National 24/7/365 under lights.
free dixie,sw
Needless to say, I think we can all safely assert that El Capitan has a second "weekend" residence over a dyke bar in San Francisco. We know this because the fact that he doesn't live there most of the time does not preclude him from having one. We also know by example of his friends right here at FR (#3nazi and the horse named Wlat) that el capitan associates with the same social class as all the freaks and perverts of San Francisco. And most of all he certainly has not proven that he does not have this second residence!
Using el capitan's very own criteria by which he accused Taney, we may therefore safely assert that he takes weekend trips to Haight-Ashbury to fraternize with the Wlat Brigade's exiled members as the Indigo Girls perform at the homo bar below him.
Every criterion is met: (1) his current residence doesn't preclude him from having another, (2) he demonstrably participates in a social class of known freaks and deviants (#3 and Wlat) that he still pings months after they've been banned, (3) he cannot prove that he does not have a San Francisco residence, and (4) capitan and San Francisco are all in the same state of California. The only thing missing from the equation is (5) a cemetary, but I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find one of his own ancestors buried near a distant relative of Rosie O'Donnell so we might as well just assume that to be true like everything else!
PSSST! Methinks El Capitan is trying to summon Wlat again!
Another case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I'll take it easy on you guys today. I know you're all broken up about the Supreme Court ruling against the Klan.
You have to understand, just about anybody is "left" of guys in hoods, jackboots, and waving the old confederate flag.
Fair enough. But, unfortunately, you can't speak for your comrades. I'll honor your offer, so far as you are concerned.
How is your old neo-nazi buddy #3 doing these days, capitan? Has he made the visit with you to Wlat's stable yet?
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