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To: Ditto

It is enumerated under the legislative branch, not the executive, not the judiciary. The Supreme Court ruled that it could not be suspended without an act of Congress. The Supreme Court was ignored.

Congress did not approve it upon returning to session in 1861. It was not approved by Congress until 1863.


164 posted on 02/13/2009 10:02:35 AM PST by coon2000
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To: coon2000
The Supreme Court ruled that it could not be suspended without an act of Congress. The Supreme Court was ignored.

The entire court has never taken the matter up, so they have never ruled one way or the other.

166 posted on 02/13/2009 10:32:11 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: coon2000
The Supreme Court ruled that it could not be suspended without an act of Congress.

Not true. The Court has never said who can suspend it.

187 posted on 02/13/2009 2:15:19 PM PST by Ditto
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