Wade-Davis treated Southerners as traitors who deserved to be punished. It also required Southern states to write a new state constitution banning slavery before they get back into union. Lincoln maintained that no state had a right to secede, that claims of secession were null and void that these states were still in the union. Further, Congress did not have the constitutional power to force a state change its state constitution.
It was pocket vetoed by President lincoln.
By a Pocket Veto. He kept the bill in his 'pocket' till it was too late because he didn't like the Wade Davis bill.
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President Abraham Lincoln's plan did not guarantee African American equality. The Wade-Davis Bill passed by the Radical Republicans demanded guarantees of African American equality. Lincoln killed this bill with a "pocket veto."
President Abraham Lincoln's plan did not guarantee African American equality. The Wade-Davis Bill passed by the Radical Republicans demanded guarantees of African American equality. Lincoln killed this bill with a "pocket veto."
pocket vetoed
he pocket vetoed it. because he wante the 10 percent plan and thought the wade Davis was to harsh.
Because
Lincoln's plan did not guarantee African American equality.
was too lenient; the more stringent Wade-Davis bill, which Lincoln pocket-vetoed
the rivial plan proposed by congress to president Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was the Wade-Davis Bill. It was vetoed.