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To: GOPcapitalist
Those are quotes from a historian, not a court decision, Walt. Try again.

Oh ho ho!

Why would you tell a big fib like that?

Several cases were cited in that excerpt from "Lincoln's Constitution".

The power to do so “is essential to the existence of every government, essential to the preservation of order and free institutions, and is necessary to the State of this Union as to any other government.”

That's old Taney himself being quoted.

--Your-- charge is to check the source material and see if Dr. Farber is using it out of context.

Walt

667 posted on 06/27/2003 9:40:35 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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To: WhiskeyPapa
Several cases were cited in that excerpt from "Lincoln's Constitution".

Not one of them was cited beyond a line or two and none of those quotes contained the words "habeas" or "corpus." You claimed to have knowledge of a court case that explicitly said the president could suspend habeas corpus. If you have such knowledge, Walt, quote the case. Otherwise don't shoot your mouth off with claims that you cannot support.

670 posted on 06/27/2003 9:44:00 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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