He said: I think the Constitution gives the commander in chief special powers under the laws of war.
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He said he made it under his wartime powers as commander in chief.
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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.
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