I'll explain. What I ment was that during the War, the Govenment got bigger and did UnConstitutional things.
That is all, I ment. Example.
Legal Tender and the Civil War
by Jacob G. Hornberger, November 2000
FACED WITH A LACK of Northern enthusiasm for his war against the South, President Lincoln resorted to drastic means to finance his war effort. If Lincoln had resorted to a traditional method of government finance — taxation — he knew that he might be faced with tax riots among the people of the North. And he knew that if he relied on another traditional method — government borrowing — the government-issued notes would soon be trading at a deep discount as a result of the inflation of the notes.
Thus, Lincoln and the U.S. Congress resorted to a method of government finance on which tyrannical governments throughout history had relied. They authorized an increase in the issuance of government notes and then ordered that the notes be accepted by everyone at face value, even if they were depreciating in value in the marketplace. It was the first time since the enactment of the Constitution in 1787 that a legal-tender law had been imposed on the American people.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/1100a.asp