 Now, then, tell me if you please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds, for, as commanderin-chief of the army and navy,...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - 144 psl.1903Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 psl.
...an emergency do things on military grounds which cannot be done constitutionally by Congress." And: "As commander-in-chief of the army and navy, in time...right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy."13 Lincoln did not himself define the limits of the executive war power. An exculpatory opinion,... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 psl.
...he had no legal or constitutional reservations about issuing an emancipation proclamation because, "as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, in time...take any measure which may best subdue the enemy." After overruling Hunter's proclamation, Lincoln began to think of emancipation as a question to be... | |
 | Melvin Small - 1996 - 228 psl.
...size of the Army and Navy without congressional authorization. He claimed "as commander-in-chief ... I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy." In the 1863 Prize Cases, the Supreme Court supported his actions, ruling that the "President was bound... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 psl.
...executive, branch of government that was entitled to exercise the war powers, Lincoln insisted that "as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, in time...right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy."32 With the firing on Fort Sumter he showed how broadly he intended to construe the war powers... | |
 | Clinton Rossiter - 346 psl.
...just about anything that the necessities of the military situation demanded. "As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy in time of war I suppose I have...right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy."2" His uncertainties and his tendency to regard his war power as an interim one in the absence... | |
 | 2003 - 260 psl.
...be all-powerful as commander-in-chief in wartime. Speaking to a Chicago deputation in 1862, he said, "as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, in time...take any measure which may best subdue the enemy." It is this Abraham Lincoln — war president and commanderin-chief — that I intend to portray in... | |
 | 2003 - 470 psl.
...empire, and generally trying his best to be an all-round enemy of freedom. It means saying with Lincoln, "I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy." The key to winning the respect of historians is to do these things. All aspirants to this vile office... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 2004 - 374 psl.
...especially, he might have added, after General Pope's defeat by the Confederates. He did not dispute that "as commander-inchief of the army and navy, in time of war ... I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy." And he did not by any means foreclose... | |
 | Andrew Rudalevige - 2005 - 382 psl.
...with the law of war, in time of war," he argued in 1863, later adding, "As commander-in-chief. . . I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy," even if this included "things on military grounds which cannot constitutionally be done by Congress."... | |
 | Jerrold M. Packard - 2005 - 326 psl.
...the rebelling states to pursue their rebellion. As he succinctly put it, "As commander in chief ... I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy."21 The Congress did not at the time have the power to legislate emancipation against his wishes;... | |
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