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To: TexConfederate1861
Davis doesn't come close to ole "honest Abe" (barf)

Davis once said, "...the true and only test is to enquire whether the law is intended to and calculated to carry out the object...If the answer be in the affirmative, the law is constitutional." By his definition then, Davis never committed an unconsitutional act in his whole term in office. And neither did Lincoln.

326 posted on 02/24/2006 4:23:16 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Davis once said, "...the true and only test is to enquire whether the law is intended to and calculated to carry out the object...If the answer be in the affirmative, the law is constitutional." By his definition then, Davis never committed an unconsitutional act in his whole term in office. And neither did Lincoln.

Please. The entire quote is this,

The true and only test is to enquire whether the law is intended and calculated to carry out the object; whether it devises and creates an instrumentality for executing the specific power granted; and if the answer be in the affirmative, the law is constitutional.
President Jefferson Davis, 29 May 1862, 'Letter to Georgia Governor Joseph Brown', Correspondence Between Governor Brown and President Davis, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Act, Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Intelligencer Print, 1862, p. 18
If either Constitution granted a power, and that law was pursuant to that delegated power, then the law was constitutional.
334 posted on 02/24/2006 6:29:41 AM PST by 4CJ (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito, qua tua te fortuna sinet.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

For some reason, you always seem to throw Davis into these discussions. He is not the subject here. What Davis did or didn't do is not even an issue. I am asserting that Lincoln was a despotic Tyrant. What Davis did is immaterial to the discussion.


338 posted on 02/24/2006 7:15:44 AM PST by TexConfederate1861
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