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Deep Background Presents: The Broken Constitution Ep.3

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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Freeing Slavery Is an Act of Diktatorship

Lincoln believed that for a general to use his war powers to free slaves was an act of dictatorship, and he was not using that term in the positive sense of the word. It took l Lincoln more than a year for his views to evolve and change. He gradually realized that it would be difficult or impossible for him to win the war by creating a sufficient incentive for the southern states to rejoin the union voluntarily.

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