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cindy25
12-27-2010, 09:07 PM
can't post the exact quote as its from the audio, track 46-47.

http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Constitution-Guides/dp/1596985054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293505501&sr=8-1

cindy25
12-28-2010, 04:43 AM
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_merryman_bio_taney.html
The Merryman proceedings reflected Taney’s determination to challenge the Lincoln administration and its strategy to preserve the Union. As circuit judge, Taney successfully resisted the prosecution of Merryman and other Marylanders indicted for treason. The increasingly isolated and eccentric Chief Justice, anticipating cases that never came before the Supreme Court, drafted opinions declaring conscription and emancipation unconstitutional. Taney died on October 12, 1864.

Aratus
12-28-2010, 12:07 PM
taney had he lived would have agreed with andrew johnson's pardons,
and the subsequent supreme court decision before the senate trial
that looked again at the fast and furious way the Union came together
in 1861 in terms of the war mobilization and the scope of the wartime
powers a sitting president ought to have. taney was a counterpoint!