The spin ramps up … Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally. […] Particulars in Obama’s proclamation may well be changed by Americans over time. But like Lincoln’s, its provisional and limited character will have a democracy-forcing effect — spurring officials and citizens to more actively engage in a constitutional dialogue. Rather than refusing to follow the Constitution
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November 22, 2014
Obama’s amnesty is like Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves … or something … [Darleen Click]
January 5, 2013
Having a debt ceiling at all is like having slavery, or something … [Darleen Click]
Oh good lord. “Sometimes when we’ve gotten great answers is when presidents have had enough authority to take some actions,” Davis told TheDC on Capitol Hill Friday. “I mean, remember that we just celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and if Abraham Lincoln had not had the power, authority and the will to make that decision, we may have gone on with the war that was going to