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To: capitan_refugio
"[T]he Constitution itself allows deviations from ordinary rules in wars and other emergencies....

Really!? Where is the clause allowing ANY part to be suspended or tossed aside in times of war? Per 9-0 vote in ex parte Milligan:

The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

2,189 posted on 12/03/2004 7:11:03 AM PST by 4CJ (Laissez les bon FReeps rouler)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Buy Farber's book. It is available in paperback.

"Where is the clause allowing ANY part [of the Constitution] to be suspended or tossed aside in times of war?"

Now back to your reading comprehension problem. Did Farber write anything about suspending the Consitution itself? No. He used the term "ordindary rules." What do you think the "Laws of War" and the Commander-in-Chief's "war powers" are all about?

2,219 posted on 12/03/2004 1:03:44 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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