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Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the TEA Party affiliated We the People Convention (WTPC) and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, published a full page ad in the Washington Times newspaper demanding that President Trump Invoke limited Martial law in order to allow the U.S. Military to oversee a new free and fair federal election if Legislators, Courts and the Congress do not follow the Constitution.
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In the months following the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln struggled to preserve the Union. Many objected to Lincolnās extraordinary use of Presidential authority, in particular his suspension of the right of āHabeas Corpusā. On June 12, 1863 Lincoln defended his extreme measures in a letter published in the New York Times. Citing Article I of the Constitution he argued: āOurs is a case of rebellionā¦in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of rebellion; and the provision of the Constitution that āthe privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require itā, is the provision which specifically applies to our present case.ā Lincoln used the same reasoning in justifying a series of extraordinary Presidential Orders