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COMMON SENSE is the authority, of which you apparently, have lost yours.

So you are talking to me! How nice. But with all due respect common sense says to rely on those tasked with determining what is constitutional and what is not. Lincoln was faced with a rebellion. Constitutionally the government is granted the power to call out the militia to suppress rebellion, either by Congress in accordance with Article I or by the president if Congress is not in session in accordance with the Militia Acts.

Furthermore, I could care less about you or anyone else admitting the truth about anything in regards to what I have said.

A difficult task, you have to admit, given the nonsense you persist in posting.

The blatant truth of Lincoln's complete contempt and utter disregard for human beings who lived in the South, TELLS THE TALE...

According to all the myths of the Lost Cause.

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I submit that even historically the Romans and Jews did not consider one to be adult and able to enlist or mary before age 13,hence an 11 year old ,whether slave or not,did not voluntarily enlist.

But like millions of conscripted soldiers of all sides he had little choice.

Do not forget the British practice of impressing able-bodied men into the King's Navy.And once on board a ship they were forced to swear oaths of obedience on pain of death and treated barbarically.

The leaders of the North executed dozens ,perhaps hundreds,of young men who attempted to escape the slavery of involuntary servitude in Lincoln's army.

I believe A. Lincoln was the first president of the United States of America to institute miltary slavery.