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To: Congressman Billybob
I'm not quibbling with the result necessarily, just the method. So state martial law can trump the Constitution? Even something like habeus corpus?
131 posted on 09/08/2005 4:24:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Even something like habeus corpus?

As I remember suspension of habeus corpus is allowed for in the constitution. I have never seen the precedent for suspension of the RKBA.

137 posted on 09/08/2005 4:26:30 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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