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To: MamaTexan
Do you even read your own posts? Did not you yourself post the fact that Governor Mifflin declined to request help, that he refused to call out the militia, and said that absent any local request for help that the President did not have the power to do so either? Yet Washington went right ahead and called up the miltia anyway, using the authority granted him under the Militia Act. In both his proclamation and in his message to Congress he makes it clear that the governor and legislature of Pennsylvania did not have a say in the matter. He called up the militia from Pennsylvania and other states, and he he suppressed the rebellion.

Governor Mifflin set a precedent that still stands today.

As did Washington. He called up the militia of several states and sent them to suppress insurrection without waiting for the governor to request it.

That IS the law, and Lincoln ignored it.

Well, no, it is not. And he did not.

312 posted on 11/20/2006 11:11:39 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
In both his proclamation and in his message to Congress he makes it clear that the governor and legislature of Pennsylvania did not have a say in the matter

But even Washington, as great and honorable man that he was, could not trump the Constitution.

The States were sovereign in their own borders. Read it again.

315 posted on 11/20/2006 11:22:13 AM PST by MamaTexan ( I am not a ~legal entity~....... nor am I a 'person' as created by law.)
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