How did lincoln make sure the emancipation proclamation was within his constitutional authority ?

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Alexander George · Answer 1 · 2023-07-01T15:35:28+0000

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward

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