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Really? I see the part where Congress can maintain an army and a navy, but not separate branches of the military like an air force or a marine corps. Much less a CIA, FAA, etc., etc.

Yes, that's right -- they can maintain them any way they like. And the President can staff them.

But he can't interpret the Constitution to suspend habeas corpus, and he can't send the Army on an overseas expedition on his own ticket. He can't declare war against a State of the Union, and he can't compel departing States by force of arms. So there.

OK, so Congress and the president can interpret the Constitution so long as they do it in ways that you agree with, and cannot do it in ways that you disagree with? I don't think that it works that way.

If a president has violated the constitution in a way that is offensive, the constitution has a remedy: Impeachment. The confederate sympathizers didnt have much need for constitions, disregarding what they didn't like and righting new ones, and then disregarding what they didnt like in the one they just wrote. The so called Confederate constitution has a provision for a supreme court, but Davis never got around to nominating anyone. That left him untrammeled by legality.

Since Lincoln was pretty popular at the end of the war, he would not have been impeached. Before impeachement was invented, leaders were removed by assassination. Accordingly Booth resorted to non-constitutional methods and assassinated Lincoln. So now you have it. Booth was the first neo confederate.