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To: Non-Sequitur
Like I've said all along, Davis failed to abide by the confederate constitution aided and abetted by the confederate congress. Where have you been? Yet contempt of constitution seems to be a point of pride for supporters of the Davis regime.

Are you off your meds, or are you just funnin' with us, pretending to be this dense? It's congresses job to create the court - not the Presidents. There is no way that Davis could have failed to abide by the Constitution on this issue. If congress passed a bill creating the court, Davis could a) veto it, b) refuse to sign [but it becomes law anyhow], or c) sign it. All three options are constitutionally delegated powers. Contempt of the Constitution would be when Davis pulled a Lincoln and did whatever the hell he wanted, claiming it was a military power, that he could trash the Constitution in order to save it.

672 posted on 11/20/2003 12:27:29 PM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Contempt of the Constitution would be when Davis pulled a Lincoln and did whatever the hell he wanted, claiming it was a military power, that he could trash the Constitution in order to save it.

Without a supreme court to reign in his abuse of power, Davis did just that. Thousands of people jailed without trial, simply on the order of the habeas corpus commissioners; conscription; forced extension of enlistments; income tax; protective tariffs; government control of industry; government seizure of agricultural produce and shipping space without compensation. How much of that would have withstood the scrutiny of a supreme court? Not a lot. Yet every one of those was a policy implemented by the Davis regime. Why would he ever want to subject those to the scrutiny of a court that might tell him that he couldn't do it? Him. Jefferson Davis. The idea that there might be someone who would possibly say 'No' to his was insulting to him. So the idea that he would ever fight for the establishment of a supreme court is ridiculous.

679 posted on 11/21/2003 4:12:27 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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