Actions of Abraham Lincoln Justified Essay

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Abraham Lincoln

The starting point for this brief essay is that Abraham Lincoln asserted and used a number of rather wide-ranging powers during the Civil War. There were things done during that war which were largely (or mostly) not seen before or seen since. Despite this, Abraham Lincoln is seen as one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) Presidents ever because he was able to win the Civil War and preserve the Union. His tactics included suspending habeas corpus, the convening of military courts, the arresting of civilians and the closing of newspapers. While much of what Lincoln did back in the 1860's would never fly in today's time or today's wars, his actions really were needed at the time and they ended up accomplishing their goal.

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The first question asked as part of this brief report was whether Abraham Lincoln's use of Presidential power was justified. Given that what happened in the 1860's was rather cataclysmic, given that it was never used before that, given has never been used since and given that it did what it was supposed to do, the answer to that question would really have to be a "yes." The author of this report would compare it to the use of the nuclear bombs against Japan at the end of World War II. Like the measures taken by Lincoln, what happened with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had never happened before and those actions have never happened since.

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Also like Hiroshima et al., the debate over it was called for and justified is yet another question that is still debated today. Even with the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that pulled the United States into the war, the eventual "receipt" that the United States issued back to Japan was so beyond the pale and scope of what is acceptable given that they were civilian targets and everyone involved, including Truman, knew it. Coming back to Lincoln, he saw that the union was in great danger of falling apart and the other side was literally going to war with the nation and its existence as was known at the time. Much like is happening with terrorism today, such a new and expansive circumstance calls for non-conventional means to eliminate the problem (U.S. History, 2016).

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