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To: rustbucket
The Confederate Congress authorized Davis to suspend habeas corpus for specified time periods. Lincoln on the other hand suspended it on his own in 1861, for which the US Congress later had to indemnify him. If Lincoln had the power to suspend habeas corpus, as some Northern posters argue, why did the US Congress authorize Lincoln to suspend it in 1863?

To make sure that there was no confusion on its support for what Lincoln did.

3,179 posted on 03/02/2005 12:45:12 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: fortheDeclaration
To make sure that there was no confusion on its support for what Lincoln did [suspending habeas corpus in 1861].

Congress by itself couldn't amend the Constitution to make what he did legal.

3,202 posted on 03/02/2005 9:22:13 AM PST by rustbucket
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