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Show THE K.U KLtJX BILL,. The statute violates the letter of the Constitution by declaring that to be a rebellion against the United States which is nothing more than violence to individuals, and by permitting the writ of habeas corpus to be suspended in time of peace: by authorizing the President to employ the military forces in repressing opposition to State laws without any application from State authorities; by extending the prohibitions prohibi-tions of the Fourteenth Amendment to cases of private wrong; and by clothing the national courts with jurisdiction juris-diction over ordinary crimes and with the function of ordinary police repression. re-pression. It violates the entire spirit of the Constitution hy cpnferring upon tne Hresident in time of peace a military discretion which belongs to him only as Commander-in-Chief in time of actual war; and by destroyine the separate although subordinate independence of the States withiu their appropiate spheres, which was firmly established in the Constitution as an essential feature of our institutions. institu-tions. From the Nation. |