| | | "And I'll settle for a single example of a Good by the right, just one fucking example..."
The Emancipation Proclamation of Slavery by Republican (of the right?) President Abraham Lincoln.
.... and to think I managed to write that without having to resort to an expletive ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time. The Proclamation was based on the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by Congress. The Proclamation also ordered that "suitable" persons among those freed could be enrolled into the paid service of United States' forces, and ordered the Union Army (and all segments of the Executive branch) to "recognize and maintain the freedom of" the ex-slaves. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens. It made the eradication of slavery an explicit war goal, in addition to the goal of reuniting the Union.
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As we can see it was an EXECUTIVE ORDER .... one of the few means by which a President can get something done that, presumably, he personally feels very strongly about.
Much the same process as to what the current incumbent (of the left?) in the White House is contemplating using.
Seems to possibly support the contention that good can come from both the "left" and "right" of the f-----g political centre. |
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