Search
Member List
Calendar
Help
Lincoln Discussion Symposium
/
Lincoln Discussion Symposium
/
Trivia Questions - all things Lincoln 
/
Maryland constitutional questions after Fort Sumter
/
Maryland constitutional questions after Fort Sumter
|
Maryland constitutional questions after Fort Sumter
|
|
08-25-2020, 10:35 AM
Post: #11
|
|||
|
|||
|
RE: Maryland constitutional questions after Fort Sumter
Doris Kearns Goodwin, in her book Team of Rivals, at page 365, wrote:
"Congress responded with alacrity [to President Lincoln's July 4, 1861 message to Congress]. Its members authorized more money and an even larger mobilization of troops than the president had requested. In addition, they provided retroactive authority for nearly all of Lincoln's executive actions taken before they convened, remaining silent only on his suspension of habeas corpus." "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
|||
|
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)