The courts DID decide the validity of that act in Ex Parte Merryman. Lincoln failed to appeal that decision as was his burden to do if he did not like it.
The courts DID decide the validity of that act in Ex Parte Merryman. Lincoln failed to appeal that decision as was his burden to do if he did not like it.
Obviously not. The government pretty much went on to prosecute the war, didn't it? People were still detained with no recourse to habeas, weren't they?
The very careful plans of the insurrectionists were thrown down, weren't they?
Gee whiz. President Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide, wasn't he?
President Lincoln wrote a lengthy defense of his actions in June, 1863. Taney had ensured that his Merryman ruling had wide distribution. Who's interpretation did people find more compelling back then, Lincoln's or Taney's?
You are asking that we give credence to Taney, who openly wished for a dissolution of the Union, over President Lincoln, who knew that democratic government -- that government brought forth on this continent by "our fathers" -- was the last, best hope of earth.
That says a lot more about you than it does President Lincoln.
You must hate the United States. How do you stand it here?
Walt