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In what ways did Lincoln bend the constitution during the civil war?
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∙ 14y ago
Actually, he suspended habeus corpus and Bush did this too for enemy combatants. Habeus corpus is up there with double jeopardy, lettres de cachet, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws as inalienable rights for all Americans.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 9y agoAbraham Lincoln felt the need to exert his presidential powers in a big way during the Civil War, motivated by a desire to keep the country from falling apart. Preserving the Union was of the utmost importance to him. At one point, for example, he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which is a court order that forces an arrested person to present himself or herself to a judge or a courtroom.
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