Rev. of R's, 23: 405,406; Outlook, 67:
555, 556.
24. Incidents of Presidential inaugurations. World's Work, 1: 477-479.
25. For other questions and references on the chapter, see Government in
State and Nation, 231, 232.
CHAPTER XIV.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT
Military Powers of the President.--An eminent American
historian,[43] writing of the power exercised by President Lincoln in
time of war, said, "It is an interesting fact, that the ruler of a
republic which sprang from a resistance to the English king and
Parliament should exercise more arbitrary power than any Englishman
since Oliver Cromwell, and that many of his acts should be worthy of a
Tudor."
[Footnote 43: James Ford Rhodes, _Scribner's Magazine,_ February, 1903.]
President Lincoln, it is true, exercised powers which, if attempted by a
weaker man, or at another time, might have proved dangerous to the
liberties of the people.[44]
[Footnote 44: For the suspension of the privilege of the writ of _habeas
corpus_, see p.
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