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To: Grand Old Partisan
He jailed the Maryland legislature. THAT was unconstitutional.
22 posted on 09/10/2005 6:37:34 AM PDT by DeeOhGee (If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.)
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To: DeeOhGee

Actually, Presdient Lincoln had troops surround the Maryand legislature, ready to arrest anyone who voted to secede. The Confederate sympathizers backed down, and no one was arrested. Lincoln did arrest, I think, several Maryland state legislators on other occasions, but for specific pro-rebels acts.

President George W. Bush would have done the same.


23 posted on 09/10/2005 6:41:36 AM PDT by Grand Old Partisan
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