What do we call an American president who convenes military tribunals, suspends the writ of habeas corpus, and interns anti-war opponents of his administration?

Try “The Great Emancipator.”

No president in American history carried presidential authority as far as Abraham Lincoln.  The Honorable Frank J. Williams of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, a noted Lincoln scholar, examines the lessons of Lincoln’s application of the Constitution in context of the current U.S. “war on terror” during the American Independence Museum’s third annual Forum on the Constitution and the Early Republic. This year’s forum, entitled “Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties,” is scheduled for Wed., Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in Phillips Exeter Academy’s Assembly Hall, Front Street, Exeter. Admission is free.  The forum is sponsored by the law firm of Devine, Millimet & Branch. 

Chief Justice Williams is one of the nation’s leading scholars on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. 

For more information on the Constitution Forum, call the American Independence Museum at 603/772-2622.

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