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To: sergeantdave

Johnson also issued unconditional amnesty in 1868.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=72360


45 posted on 11/15/2016 1:40:05 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Thanks for the info.


46 posted on 11/15/2016 1:45:06 PM PST by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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To: jjotto

As did Carter for the Vietnam Draft Dodgers, but I have question as to whether an “amnesty” of a group, a decision to nol pros, is in fact a pardon.

A parson cannot be reversed, but amnesty may be reversible.

Back to my law books tonight.


51 posted on 11/15/2016 3:26:08 PM PST by Strac6 (Sig Sauer, Pilatus, Mrs. Strac... all the fun things in my life are Swiss)
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