To: Grand Old Partisan
The Confederate did not even pretend to follow their own constitution. Neither did Lincoln.
20 posted on
04/16/2003 6:44:06 AM PDT by
jimt
(Support our troops !)
To: jimt
Sorry, there's no comparison.
21 posted on
04/16/2003 6:46:09 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: jimt
The Confederate did not even pretend to follow their own constitution. Neither did Lincoln.
Yes he did.
Nothing President Lincoln did was beyond the powers of the president as described in the Constitution.
Walt
30 posted on
04/16/2003 7:02:26 AM PDT by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
To: jimt
Nonsense.
Jefferson Davis refused to act outside the bounds of the Confederate Constitution, and it brought his government to ruins.
The Founding Fathers did not mean for the Constitution to be a straightjacket to prevent ourselves from destruction. It is why they allowed us to even rewrite the whole thing if need be.
To: jimt
Worse
Lincoln destroyed the Constitution that was in place.
139 posted on
04/16/2003 10:18:26 AM PDT by
Leatherneck_MT
(Another Marine Reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell)
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