Abraham Lincoln’s use of Veto power

Abraham Lincoln born in 1809 was the President of United States before he was assassination in 1865.Many scholars refer him to as the greatest president the United State has ever had in history. One among his major achievements was the successful lead of the American country during the great internal crisis. He sealed the Union of the country and fought slavery to the end. Lincoln was a lawyer, after which he became a legislator representing the Illinois state. He was a member in the House of Representatives through an election. In family matters Lincoln was said to as loving, kind, a husband and a father of four. Donald 2001 pp.69).

Background information

Today the word presidential veto does not come out in the United States Constitution, but Article I require that bills, orders, resolutions or other act of legislation by the Congress be brought to the President for his approval (Belz 1998 p 136). Normally the President is presented the bill, he can either sign it into law or may return the bill to the originating the Congress with his objections to the bill the appropriate constitutional term used is a veto, or neither sign nor return it to Congress after having been presented the bill for ten days exempting Sundays in cases where the Congress is still in session, the bill becomes a law; otherwise, the bill does not become a law and is considered a pocket veto according to the US constitution (Donald 2001 p.112).

Literature review

During his first inaugural speech, in 1861, he expanded the nature of democracy by denouncing secession as anarchy, shedding light to popular rule by balancing the restraints that governed the American system ( Angle 1992 p.64). He believed on a true sovereign with entailed free people achieved v...

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...re; Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade the political allies of the president on other issues of national importance. He was determined to reunite the Americans and not separating them from the South. He publicly declared Amnesty Proclamation forgiving those who did hold a Confederate civil office before, those with no abuse reports as pertained to the Union prisoners, and were willing to symbolically go by the oath of allegiance (Donald pp.236).

Conclusion

Lincoln an outspoken challenger against expansion of slavery, defied and articulated in his campaign issues that supported and encouraged slavery and this made him rise up the political ladder to become one of most powerful president that the American has ever had. According to Angle, et al, 1992, Lincoln has consistently been voted by scholars as the greatest Presidents of the time and history.