...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never...Constitution through the preservation of the Nation. Eight or wrong, I assumed this ground and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,...

...responsibilities by acts which he believed would conduce to the great end that he had in view. ' ' I feel that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it." Acting upon this theory, while he...

...and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt tbat measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation...

...He was conscious of the power of the people as the creating source of the Constitution when he said: "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation." If only constitutionally created the Union could not have existed previous to the Constitution, and...

...He was conscious of the power of the people as the creating source of the Constitution when he said: "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...Constitution, through the preservation of the Nation." If only constitutionally created the Union could not have existed previous to the Constitution, and...

...which dictators suspend constitutions, our first "constitutional dictator" felt that "measures, however unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." . dJThe 16th Amendment gives Congress the power to tax incomes, Thus modifying the "no capitation"...

...and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. 600 I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable...

...Constitution?" And if that was too abstract, he explained so that no one could misunderstand: "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." So it was in the Civil War. And so it was in the Second World War. Schlesinger, the scholar who gave...

...Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? ... I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...becoming indispensable to the preservation . . . of the nation.20 Lessons to Be Unlearned Our ambivalence about power also comes from lessons we learn in school....

...general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt...becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation." (Note, Lincoln to A. G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, Nicolay and Hay, Complete Works of Abraham...