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To: since 1854
In what way did President Lincoln suspend the Constitution?

Refusal to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act?
66 posted on 04/12/2007 11:02:59 AM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: HostileTerritory

That’s suspending the Constitution? Not returning escaped slaves to their insurrectionist masters?


67 posted on 04/12/2007 11:05:36 AM PDT by since 1854 (http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com)
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To: HostileTerritory
Refusal to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act?

The federal government did enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to the best of its ability in the years leading up to the rebellion. Try again.

93 posted on 04/12/2007 11:49:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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