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To: nolu chan
You forgot Section 2:

"And be it further enacted, That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, the same being notified to the President of the United States, by an associate justice or the district judge, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia of such state to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. And if the militia of a state, where such combinations may happen, shall refuse, or be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be lawful for the President, if the legislature of the United States be not in session, to call forth and employ such numbers of the militia of any other state or states most convenient thereto, as may be necessary, and the use of militia, so to be called forth, may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session."

620 posted on 01/10/2005 2:36:02 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
[Non-Squirter] You forgot Section 2:

No, Non-Squirter, section 2 deals with domestic disturbances requiring assistance to be given to the marshals of the courts. It was the War Between the States, not the Great Civil Disturbance.

capitan_refugio specifically said "in times of insurrection" and I specifically quoted the sections dealing explicitly with "insurrection."

[cr #569] Hence, the Federal government had, in times of insurrection, the power to call up the militia to enforce federal law and to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

631 posted on 01/10/2005 3:19:09 AM PST by nolu chan
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To: Non-Sequitur

He didn't "forget."


653 posted on 01/10/2005 8:52:57 AM PST by capitan_refugio
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