He said he made it under his wartime powers as commander in chief.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.
VOA: special.2009.10.08
"It is a promise that as long as I am your Commander in Chief, I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support you need to get the job done,"
VOA: standard.2009.05.22
In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."
VOA: special.2010.03.05
Because he used head-craft, instead of witchcraft, he rose from the poorest igloo to be the chief in the village.
VOA: special.2011.03.12
He was a member of the design team and became chief engineer of the building project in eighteen sixty-seven.
VOA: special.2009.03.04
One chief said the suicide rate for young Native American men in his state was twelve times the national average.
VOA: special.2009.11.13
Agency chief Margaret Chan has expressed concern there is not a good process in place to produce enough vaccine against the virus.
VOA: special.2009.08.05
Doctor Peter Rhee,trauma chief at the University Medical Center in Tucson, says he expects Representative Giffords to survive.
VOA: special.2011.01.12
The civil disorder caused by these differences was the chief issue in the presidential election of eighteen fifty-six.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!
VOA: special.2009.08.09
This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief.
VOA: special.2009.02.21
He argued that Lincoln had been commander-in-chief of all military forces and had been murdered during wartime.
VOA: special.2010.01.07
Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.
VOA: special.2009.05.14
But it moves us decisively in the right direction." Barry Arbuckle is chief executive of the non-profit MemorialCare Health System in Fountain Valley,California.
VOA: special.2010.03.26
Six of the nine justices, including the chief justice, were sitting right in front of the president.
VOA: special.2010.03.12
The state university's athletic teams are nicknamed Cornhuskers in recognition of one of the area's chief crops.
VOA: special.2009.08.16
The Senate confirmed him in May. Formerly,he was the police chief in Seattle,Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.
VOA: special.2010.10.11
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