"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Today in History
Submitted by Sharon Secor on Wed, 2011-04-27 22:24
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“On April 27, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln, citing public safety concerns amid the Civil War, suspended the writ of habeas corpus in an area between Philadelphia and Washington. (Lincoln later lifted the order, but then suspended habeas corpus for the entire Union in September 1862. Habeas corpus was restored by President Andrew Johnson in December 1865.)”
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