If I be wrong on the question of constitutional power, my error lies in believing that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in the absence... Truth from an Honest Man - Page 3by Abraham Lincoln - 1863 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
| Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...constitutional power, my error lies in believing that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety does not require them ;. in other words, that the... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1919 - 168 pages
...constitutional power, my error lies in believing that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety does not require them ; in other words, that the... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
..."treasonable correspondence" — all in the belief that "certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or Invasion, the public Safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public Safety does not require them." 1S Such actions, though... | |
| Russell Lowell Riley, Russell Lynn Riley - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 404 pages
...rebellion or Invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public Safety does not require them." Quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt." in Boritt, ed., Lincoln,... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...abettors of their cause in a thousand ways." Could not Corning see that "Ours is a case of rebellion," that "the Constitution is not, in its application,...rebellion or invasion involving the public safety"? Or, in more personal terms, "Must I shoot a simple-minded boy who deserts, while I must not touch a... | |
| Charles M. Hubbard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 270 pages
...suspension of habeas corpus Lincoln went on to say, "Certain proceedings are constitutional when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, an absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety does not require them." Lincoln seems to suggest... | |
| Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety...Constitution is not in its application in all respects the eame, in cases of rebellion or invasion involving the public safety, as it is in times of profound... | |
| William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...Vallandigham and elaborated on his view that certain proceedings are constitutional "when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public Safety requires...invasion, the public Safety does not require them." The President defended the action not on free speech grounds but on the effects of such speech. 53... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 350 pages
...constitutional power, my error lies in believing that certain proceedings are constitutional when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety requires them, which would not be constitutional when, in absence of rebellion or invasion, the public safety does not require them; in other words, that the... | |
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