Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:39 AM
kentuck (72,431 posts)
Abraham Lincoln used an executive order to pass Emancipation Proclamation
For the historians here:
Did Lincoln receive similar criticism from the Democrats, as Obama has received for his executive order on immigration??
Was he also threatened with impeachment?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025857149The DUmmy thought he really had something to spring on his republican relatives at the Thanksgiving get-together. He was all poised to pounce with this one. He was going to draw this one like a gun on the first rethug to open his stupid mouth with some sass about Barry. DUmmy was all set to shut up that bagger dad/uncle/BIL but good and send them stomping off mumbling and red-faced...
until the facts got in the way.
Back to the old drawing board, DUmmy.
Response to kentuck (Original post)Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:47 AM
Star Member merrily (11,636 posts)
2. Yes, but that was under his war powers AND he followed it up with the 13th amendment.
Response to kentuck (Original post)Sun Nov 23, 2014, 11:49 AM
Star Member former9thward (12,361 posts)
5. The Emancipation Proclamation was a military order not an Executive order.
Lincoln did the EP in his role as Commander in Chief not as President. That is why the EP did not cover all slaves. It just covered slaves in areas controlled by confederate troops. Areas in the north controlled by the Union were not covered by the EP and slaves were not freed by that order. It applied to 3 milion slaves under confederate control. One million were left as slaves that were under union control.
