...successful conclusion." Senator PC Knox, in US Senate, May 29, 1917. Cong. Reeord, 65 Cong., 1 Sess., 3276. "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Letter of Lincoln to AG Hodges, Apr. 4, 1864. Nicolay & Hay, Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, II,...

...or the old political formulas, but in the hard school of necessity. Thus President Lincoln declared that "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become...constitution through the preservation of the Nation." Pertinent also were the words of Sydney George Fisher written in 1852: "If the Union and the Government...

...preserving by every indispensable means that government, that nation, of which the Constitution is the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation...nation. Right or wrong I assumed this ground, and now I avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution...

...yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." And again: "Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of...

...save a limb." In a letter to AG Hodges, April 4, 1864 (Nicolay and Hay, VI, 430), Lincoln repeated: "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might...indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution. . . . When early in the war General Fremont attempted military emancipation I forbade it, because I...

...of his assumption of broad powers during the Civil War, often without authorization from Congress, that "measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preserving of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Quoted in Schlesinger, The...

...needed to defend some of his extraordinary (and constitutionally suspect) actions, he said that he "felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might...the constitution, through the preservation of the nation."72 In going out of his way to argue for the legality of his actions he acknowledges the status...

...Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 1977, p. 8. 5. Frost, NYT, 20 May 1977, p. 16. Lincoln actually wrote, "I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...constitution, through the preservation of the nation" (Abraham Lincoln to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864, in Roy P. Easier, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Collected...

...yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to Ihe preservation of Ihe constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed...

...TR, Lincoln was a presidential activist, who described his conception of executive power this way: "I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional,...Constitution through the preservation of the nation." 71 Presidents who are activists are more likely either to call Congress into special session, as did...