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What was Lincoln's constitutional justification for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Lincoln justified emancipation as a wartime measure, and was careful to apply it only to the Confederate states currently in rebellion. Exempt from the proclamation were the four border slave states and all or parts of three Confederate states controlled by the Union Arm

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