Lincoln Movie

Last week in class we watched the movie Lincoln, it was about Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. After watching the movie some people thing that Abraham Lincoln abused his powers, but then if he did abuse his powers what about our present President Barak Obama? Is he abusing his executive powers in passing many laws without letting people vote on them? Or is he doing this for the good of the country?

Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, during this time he did not think about ending slavery. Two year later Lincoln was trying to pass the 13th amendment, which was to abolish slavery. In this two year period slaves were taking over plantations. The civil war was also going on and slaves were helping fight. I think that passing the amendment was a war effort by Lincoln that helped end the war. The movie showed him more of abusing his powers with sending people out to make representatives change their vote during slavery. There is no evidence that he did have to have people persuade representative to change their minds.

With our President Barak Obama passing very many laws that are dealt with guns and the safety of them. Some people think that he went out of his executive power when he put these laws into effect without letting the people vote on them, but I think that he did it for the safety of the people. He has passed 37 executive orders in his presidency for far. People think that it is out of his power with how many he has passed, but I do not think that it is how many laws he has put into effect, but I think it is what laws he is making.

I think that Abraham Lincoln and Barak Obama did not go out of their executive orders. I believe that they passed the laws for the good of the people. In the movie Lincoln they shouldn’t have had the part when he sent people out to change the vote of the representatives. I think this part made people think that Lincoln when out of his powers to get laws passed. I do not think that people should think bad of Lincoln based off of this movie.