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Tyranthraxus posted...

Anything he had to do to preserve the union was justified even in hindsight.

I suppose a cogent argument along those lines is that the Constitution outlines rights for the United States of America, and since there were people during the Civil War who were threatening the stability of that nation, suspending habeas corpus was justified. The tricky legal aspect here is that they were still citizens of the United States, albeit potential revolutionaries, and thus constitutional rights were still applicable.