How Did Lincoln Abuse His Power

Vika`s paper.doc1/ 4 Every nation absolutely need govement, people need law and order. I believe, The Founding Fathers deliberately set up a system of government that relies on the tension of preserving a series of checks and balances that are vital to its success. I also think, Lincoln abused his power beyond his jurisdiction to better the nation and ultimately won the war. Despite Congress, Lincoln took drastic steps to overcome the worst time in history of the United States. Usually it takes something overwhelming to keep the nation together. When Lincoln issued Emancipation of Proclamation, it bothered Confederate government profoundly, because with Lincoln`s signature three million people went from slave to free. Such actions

It was the case under the Bush administration that the U.S. would abduct people from around the world, accuse them of being terrorists, ship them to Guantanamo, and then keep them there for as long as we wanted without offering them any real due process tocontest the accusations against them. I think the most successful Lincoln's action during the war was the blockage of the southern ports. It was designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of warmateriel into the Confederacy. The blockade, although somewhat not secure was an important economic policy that successfully prevented Confederate access to weapons that the industrialized North could produce for itself. The U.S. Government successfully convinced foreign governments to view the blockade as a legitimate tool of war. The blockade had a negative impact on the economies of other countries. Textile manufacturing areas in Britain and France that depended on Southern cotton entered periods of high unemployment, while French producers of wine, brandy and silk also suffered when their markets in the Confederacy were cut off. But for Lincoln, it was very effective tool, but ultimately hurt international boarders. I believe its almost the same agenda that we have today when we issue sanctions against other nations to show business. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In conclusion, all of Lincoln`s “controversial” decisions was to keep the union together. Its all justifiable even though these actions were technically an abuse of presidential power. It can be argued that he abused the power of the presidency when he suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus and upheld the Declaration of