Jed Hartman on Nostr: “ Lincoln understood that the federal government's power to end slavery in ...
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Lincoln understood that the federal government's power to end slavery in peacetime was limited by the Constitution, which, before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. During the Civil War, however, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy"[. So the Proclamation described the freeing of enslaved people] "as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion". […]
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Lincoln understood that the federal government's power to end slavery in peacetime was limited by the Constitution, which, before 1865, committed the issue to individual states. During the Civil War, however, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation under his authority as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy"[. So the Proclamation described the freeing of enslaved people] "as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion". […]
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