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which controversial action did President Lincoln take early in the civil war that limited the rights of certain citizens?

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Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas. He was concerned about keeping Maryland a slave state that was located near the nations capital and the union, so then he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and then an action that brought widespread criticism.
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