So does that mean that Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Roger Taney, Benjamin Curtis, Joseph Story, William Rawl, Robert Yates, and Richard Henry Lee are not authorities on the Constitution? All of them have answered that question in agreement with the Constitution, which does not permit The Lincoln to suspend habeas corpus.
So unless Bill Rehnquist is claiming that John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and the rest lack authority in the area of the Constitution, he is simply wrong. So tough, both for him and for you if either of you don't like that.
So does that mean that Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Roger Taney, Benjamin Curtis, Joseph Story, William Rawl, Robert Yates, and Richard Henry Lee are not authorities on the Constitution? All of them have answered that question in agreement with the Constitution, which does not permit The Lincoln to suspend habeas corpus.
So unless Bill Rehnquist is claiming that John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and the rest lack authority in the area of the Constitution, he is simply wrong. So tough, both for him and for you if either of you don't like that.
That sounds -so- grown up.
What it means is that Chief Justice Rehnquist has done something that none of your sources take into account; he considers the context of what Lincoln faced. Lincoln faced a situation scarely considered by any of them.
The Chief Justice considers the circumstances; all you want to do is smear President Lincoln unfairly.
Those who can see, will see.
Walt