[WhiskeyPapa]

It is also incomparable to any situation Lincoln ever faced because where Jackson did not have a telegraph and was hundreds of miles away from the capital building, Lincoln DID have a telegraph and was about half a mile away from the capital building.

The only way that would affect the principle is if the Framers knew about telegraphs when they wrote the Constitution.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

The only way that would affect the principle is if the Framers knew about telegraphs when they wrote the Constitution.

Not really. They certainly didn't know that Louisiana was going to become a part of the United States when they wrote the Constitution. In fact, the only states back then were all along the coast and at most a few days travel from each other. News could be quickly communicated among the 13 states they knew when they wrote it, so no credible reason exists to even so much as speculate that they would have let the president suspend the writ absent of congressional approval. As for 1860, the telegraph made notice instantaneous so no excuse exists there either.