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During the the Mexican war, congressman Abraham Lincoln challenged the presidential prerogative of US President Polk during the Mexican War. Ironically, it was the same Abraham Lincoln that gave the US presidency greater power of war and peace than ever before in his policies during the US Civil War.

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