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Actually it's official name
is "The War of the Rebellion" ('Civil War' is a misnomer). But, then, you would have had to have been educated and read in American history to know that interesting little factoid, as it mostly only comes up to those of us who have actually spent time searching through the
archives, which name it correctly.
Thanks I'll add your link to my favorites. Nevertheless, not remembering the official name does not negate my original response. But it is a very interesting historical factoid that many are unaware of and for me it gave an entire new perspective on the Civil War. I thought it was brilliant on Lincoln's part and was probably the most single important factor that kept the union in tact..legally.
No, some idiot on teh interwebz thought this was some kind of brilliant answer and so you copied it. Unfortunately, you copied from a fool, because the ability of the Congress to authorize a campaign to put down insurrection =/= an Executive attempt to unilaterally overturn the second amendment.
The point of posting the 1807 insurrection law was in response to someone posting Jeffersons quote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” and was not intended to address your strawman second amendment. The blog I copied it from was well "sourced" rendering your criticism fallacious and irrelevant.
Well, that same great man you quoted signed a law in 1807 granting the president the power to use the standing army against US citizens......
Elektratig: Thomas Jefferson Enforces the Embargo 1: Congress Authorizes the Use of the Army and Navy to Suppress Insurrection....
One of those words there is more important than the others. Can you guess which one?
It was approved by congress and signed by Jefferson into law. Once it became law, the president as "commander in chief" and "executor of the laws" and "having first observed all pre-requisites" does not need congressional authorization to use the standing army to suppress insurrections.....
Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws, either of the United States, or of any individual State or Territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.
SEC. 2.
And be it further enacted, That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act,
it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to call forth the militia of such state, or any other state or states, as may be necessary to suppress such combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed; and the use of militia so to be called forth may be continued, if necessary, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the then next session of Congress.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
