Book Description

Excerpt from The Constitutionality and Expediency of Confiscation Vindicated: Speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, on the Bill to Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7, 1962 Surelythe men who made and put into operation the Cwonstitu'tion understood very little of its pro visions when they passed such a lawa's this, if my colleague 1s 'right in his assertion that the War executing powers are Vested 1111 the President, in the executive department of the Government, and Congress has no more right to touch them or ex eicise them than it has to usurp and exercise. The judicial functions of the Government. How the Senator from Pennsylvania Who' declined, With such self-complacency, that the President was invested with the war-making power, that he is the commander directing and controlling it as he bleas'ies, must 'be shocked at the ignorance of our fathers of the mean'ing of the Constitution t'h'ey' had made, when he reads 'o'ver the hundred and one articles Of war, and particularly the fifty eighth article, which directs what tis to ibe done with' the public stores: taken in the enemy 's forts and camps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.