CHRISTMAS DAY: War Democrat (constitutionalist) de facto President Andrew Johnson (a Citizen of the confederate State of Tennessee) pardons former confederate Citizens accused of treason as a result of the War of Federal Aggression.
Question: Johnson had been president nearly four years, why did he wait until he was a lame duck before he took this action?
[restored 5/2/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article II, Section 2 [Clause 1]
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 197.
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