US Sedition Act

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 10 10:42:20 PST 2001


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


> "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who
>inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government,
>they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their
>revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
> --A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Then he led a war against the South for trying to dismember it, suspended habeas corpus, etc. etc.

Doug



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