HIST 1230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Reconstruction Acts, Emergency Banking Act, The Residents
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Being the absolute liberal that he was, president abraham lincoln, attempted to do everything within his power to avoid a civil war. American history doesn"t reflect the fact that lincoln had offered to compromise his stand on slavery [e. g. ] These forces also convinced the southern states to succeed from the union, which was certain to destroy the foundation of the american government and so a civil war was imminent. The succession of the southern states from the union technically destroyed the united states congress because a quorum could never be convened, so all acts by the congress during the civil war was never lawful! Note: this last statement is based upon the presumption that anything congress did before that time-line was somehow lawful! Lincoln attempted to cure this problem of the absence of a quorum by declaring that: america was at war. He supported his actions based upon the war powers.
