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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 Lincolnā€™s extraordinary use of Presidential authority, in particular his suspension of the right of ā€œHabeas 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: ā€œOurs is a case of rebellionā€¦in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of rebellion; and the provision of the Constitution that ā€˜the 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

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