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The Similarities Between The Emancipation Proclamation And The 13th Amendment

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Legally, the Emancipation Proclamation was a strategically clever move. The president is not endowed by the Constitution to proclaim laws or even bestow civil liberties on specific groups of people. However, the president is empowered with broad wartime powers to protect the general welfare of the United States. Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation under his power as commander in chief in a time of war. It was not approved by Congress or even voted upon. Lincoln issued the proclamation as a king issues an edict. The key similarity between the proclamation and the 13th amendment is the intention of each was to free the slaves. Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation asserted as a power of the commander in chief, the 13th amendment
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