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Back To the Basics of
Republicanism
(Drafted by Ted Hayes, 12/2015) Role
of the
In fact, under the executive powers of POTUS Abraham Lincoln, the United States federal government began its long, difficult, but morally correct journey to rectify the incomplete-unjust application of the new nation’s first law by the exclusion of the Americans whom were held under its jurisdiction as chattel slaves and Freemen, by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, even backed by the power of the *military. * “military”
- "…all persons held as
slaves…shall be then, thenceforward, and
forever free; and the
Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them, in any
efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Now, therefore I, Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me
vested as Commander-in-Chief, of
the
Army and
Navy of the United States in time of actual armed
rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and
as a fit and necessary war
measure for suppressing said rebellion And by virtue of the power,
and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons
held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States,
are, and henceforward shall be free; and that
the
Executive government of the
United States, including the military and naval authorities
thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of said persons.” Note: The authoritative, military enforced objective of Emancipation Proclamation carries over into post Civil War laws such as Sections 4 and 9 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, the definitive body of the 14th Amendment stating, Sec. 4, “…and the persons so appointed to
execute any warrant or process as aforesaid shall have authority to
summon and call to their aid the bystanders or posse comitatus of the
proper county, or such portion of
the land or naval forces of the
United States, or of the militia,
as may be necessary to the
performance of the duty with which they are charged, and to insure a
faithful observance of the clause of the Constitution which prohibits
slavery, in conformity with the provisions of this Act;” Sec. 9. “And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and enforce the due execution of this act.”
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