[golux]

Ding! You could use a History alert, too! Why not start by reading the Emancipation Proclamation.

[Ditto]

"Ding! You could use a History alert, too! Why not start by reading the Emancipation Proclamation."

I have read it many times. Now tell us professor, how could Lincoln have Constitutionally freed slaves via executive order in states that were not in rebellion?

It appears you only have a superficial (or perhaps selective) knowledge of both history and of the Constitution.