Presidential powers abused or not???

In Government we watched the movie Lincoln this movie showed the struggles that President Lincoln had while the North and the South were fighting the Civil War. He also was leading the push to pass the thirteenth amendment before the war was over. Some people thought that at that time President Lincoln was abusing his powers because he wanted to abolish slavery and also passing the emancipation proclamation. People at the time thought that the states should be the one deciding whether or not slavery should be acceptable. People today think the same way about president Obama and question if he abusing his powers. President Obama has made many executive orders while he has been in office over things like gun control and how he should be the one to regulate them. I believe that things,”executive orders like that should be up to the state and not the president to decide. 

Lincoln had a lot on his plate towards the end of the war. The movie that we watched showed that President Lincoln was in a race to pass the thirteenth amendment to end the civil war and bring the south back into the union. It was not a race to pass it like the movie states.  It took three months after the passing of the thirteenth amendment until the war was over. It also took another seven months for the states to ratify it. I believe that the thirteenth amendment was a part of war tactics but it wasn't successful   in stopping the war. Sherman’s march to the sea was a better war tactic than passing the thirteenth amendment.

The movie represented a lot of what happened, I just don’t think it was necessarily accurate from the time frame to some of the people and how they viewed President Lincoln. The president has a very stressful job worrying about the country and the president has to do things he not entirely proud to do. I believe that all presidents have abused their powers but for the good of the country.