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It may be hard for you to imagine, but the Supreme Court, charged with
deciding that issue, found Lincoln lacked the Constitutional authority and that
was, and always is, the final word in Constitutional debates. So, any debate
about it was ended and Lincoln was required to comply with the Court's
decision. He refused to do so, a clearly impeachable action by any standard.
I fail to find anything meritorious in Lincoln's continual actions in
ignoring the Constitution and his oath of office to follow his own feelings on what
he could and could not do.
I am sure the 600,000 dead Americans in the Civil War would agree.
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