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- From: bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 16:16:15 -0500
- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
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- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
- >The Constitution explicitly gives the president the power to suspend
- >habeas corpus when martial law has been declared. But the army has no
- >such power unless the president himself calls for it.
-
- Actually, the constitution explicitly gives Congress the power to suspend
- habeas corpus (It is subsection 3 of Section 9 of Article I dealing with
- Legislative authority. Presidential authority is dealt with in Article II)
- On this basis the supreme court ruled Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
- unconstitutional during the Civil war. Lincoln supposedly remarked that since
- it was the supreme court's ruling, they could enforce it and continued to
- deny habeas corpus. The army mainly used the suspension of habeas corpus
- to lock up Marylanders who advocated seccession. Early in the Civil war it
- appeared Maryland would secede. Since that would have placed Washington DC
- between two states of the confederacy, it would have been a catastrophe for
- Lincoln and the north. Therefore he overstepped his authority to prevent it.
- Maryland's state song refers to "the tyrant" meaning Lincoln for his actions.
-
- Now that I've had a turn too, can we get back to mathematics?
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