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Show Suspension of Constitutional Rights Sometimes Necessary In order lo save the Union Abraham Lincoln had to suspend sus-pend some of the constitutional guarantees in the Bill of Rights, notably the Habeus Corpus right. Judge Taney ruled that a president could not do this, but it was done in some of the 38,000 ca?es of arrest during the Civil War. In order to save the constitution Linculn had to save the nation that is governed by the constitution even if he had to violate it It i a preposterous idea of men that they can invoke the rights of the constitution for the purpose of destroying it. Today every trait r and saboteur is hiding behind the Bill of Rights while trying to destroy the government. How can we save either constitution or government by tolerating treason trea-son auainst them? We must determine as Lincoln did that tin co istitutional guarantees depend on the saving of the nation which is governed by the constitution. - - .... |