After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?
I’m pretty sure the downvotes missed your point completely.
Jeff Davis wasn’t tried for treason because he had to be technically in another country once the states seceded. This was because the military occupation, and readmittance of confederate states to the union was relying on them being a foreign occupied territory. Whether that was really necessary in the case of a civil war could be argued, but the congress seemed intent on operating within existing laws at the time, rather than making new specific ones with the remaining union members.
I think that the foreign lands policy should have meant that they could have a said fuck em and ratify constitutional amendments without the confederate states.
I’m pretty sure the downvotes missed your point completely.
Jeff Davis wasn’t tried for treason because he had to be technically in another country once the states seceded. This was because the military occupation, and readmittance of confederate states to the union was relying on them being a foreign occupied territory. Whether that was really necessary in the case of a civil war could be argued, but the congress seemed intent on operating within existing laws at the time, rather than making new specific ones with the remaining union members.
I think that the foreign lands policy should have meant that they could have a said fuck em and ratify constitutional amendments without the confederate states.