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On a very controversial basis, US President Lincoln pushed the envelope of his Constitutional powers throughout the US Civil War. He often made apologies for what many of his fellow Republicans and of course Democrats, were not the proper uses of his authority. The fear that if unchecked, Lincoln was setting dangerous presidents.

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His power increased -- he was given special war powers by Congress.

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