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During the US Civil War, President Lincoln suspended many freedoms that were guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Habeas Corpus as example was suspended. Suspected supporters of the Confederacy were denied due process. Lincoln's defence of this was that in an emergency, certain civil rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights had to be suspended in the interest of preserving the Union.
Abraham Lincoln, right to habeus corpus during American revolution
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It was constitutional because the North was fighting for the "equal rights That's what the fight was about. The southern states thought since they had voluntarily accepted the Constitution they had the right to reject it when they did not agree with the federal government. The northern states disagreed.
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