Constitutional Blockade

The blockade order in april 18 61, is going to highlight a third constitutional problem that the lincoln administration was dealing with right after firing on fort sumter. Here's one just small example of this kind of issue coming before the supreme court in the prize cases,. o which we are going to talk about thursday. But these cases are going to indicate the kinds of arguments that folks are dealing with in terms of the constitutionality of a blockade against your own nation.