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What I gathered from that, was to take Davis to trial was to place him under double jeopardy. My point is Congress makes laws not defines them. The Courts define the law as it is tryed. Here we said time and again that they had not been traitors, but the treason clause on voting rights is what kept Davis out of the noose. Secession was legal as Chase said, but Davis's lawyer let the Traitor name remain.

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