Civil+Liberties+in+Wartime

__ 3. AS USUAL, CIVIL LIBERTIES TAKE A BEATING IN TIME OF WAR __ // Limitations on Wartime Liberties, p.475 // What did President Lincoln do during the war which was of dubious constitutionality? Why was Jefferson Davis less able to take strong action?

Lincoln increased the size of the federal army, something that only the congress can do under the constitution. He directed the Secretary of Treasury to two million without appropriation or security to three private citizens for military purposes. He suspended habeas corpus He did that so anti- Union could be arrested. He arranged for a supervised voting in the boarder states. Citizens had to make it clear which party they were voting for. Their vote was very public. Federal suspended certain news paper and arrested their editors on grounds of obstructing the war.

Jefferson Davis was less able to exercise arbitrary power because of the states' rights of the confederacy. He didn't have much power to be able to do so. The South was not willing to give up their local rights in order to win the war, so they lost.