It was particularly rampant during the Civil War unsurprisingly given that increased military spending provided new opportunities for ill-gotten profits, and many defense contractors took advantage of that environment to swindle the military.

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The Leutze's gilded frame alone 12 feet by 21 feet and based on a Matthew Brady photograph when the painting was displayed during the Civil War at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair in New York to raise money for injured Union soldiers is a tour de force.

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Under this plan, the Senate could then declare a post-attack state of emergency including a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as happened during the American civil war as long as it did so with an escalating majority every two months.

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Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.

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Also, you say I am wrong in claiming that the 1, 261 violent deaths in the first three months of military rule 55% of the total for the 17 years of military government occurred during what was in effect a civil war.

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