Existential emergency was invoked by Abraham Lincoln at the very beginning of his presidency when he suspended the most basic of civil liberties, the writ of habeas corpus, in order to stop a plot in the Maryland legislature to secede from the Union, making Washington indefensible and the Union cause lost. The case came before Chief Justice Roger Taney, who ruled the suspension was illegal and demanded the prisoners’ release, which was denied. Taney then issued an opinion stating that only Congress had the constitutional right to suspend habeas corpus. Lincoln disagreed
As Lincoln put it, for want of risking a wrong interpretation of 1 phrase of the Constitution, we would lose the Constitution in its entirety. It was with that same sense of responsibility that Churchill assumed intensely concentrated power and abrogated the normal liberties of his countryman in order to save Britain and the world from the scourge of hitlerism.
We must accept the challenge of reality and not run away to a world of abstractions divorced from the world of experience. We must preserve our liberties by seeing the actual nature of the challenge that confronts us. That truth alone enables us to prioritize the equally valid and complementary polarities before us. The stakes are our Republic’s survival.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/why_we_may_lose_our_country.htm
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https://brownstone.org/articles/making-sense-of-trumps-tariffs/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3394081/liberals-deportations-illegal-immigrants-abrego-garcia/
https://spectator.org/student-visa-became-trojan-horse-immigration-fraud/
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