TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 4 P15

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P15 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 129 which entails a complete relinquishment of the right to the care custody and earnings of such child and a repudiation of parental obligations. The emancipation may be express pursuant to a voluntary agreement between parent and child or implied from conduct that denotes consent. It may be absolute or conditional total or partial. A partial emancipation disengages a child for only a portion of the period of minority or from only a particular aspect of the parent s rights or duties. There is no determinate age when a child becomes emancipated it usually but not automatically occurs upon the attainment of the AGE OF MAJORITY. CROSS REFERENCE Parent and Child. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION The Emancipation Proclamation formally issued on January 1 1863 by President abraham LINCOLN is often mistakenly praised as the legal instrument that ended slavery actually the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution ratified in December 1865 outlawed slavery. But the proclamation is justifiably celebrated as a significant step toward the goal of ending slavery and making African Americans equal citizens of the United States. Coming as it did in the midst of the Civil War 1861-65 the proclamation announced to the confederacy and the world that the abolition of slavery had become an important goal of the North in its fight against the rebellious states of the South. The document also marked a shift in Lincoln s mind toward support for emancipation. Just before signing the final document in 1863 Lincoln said I never in my life felt more certain that i was doing right than i do in signing this paper. in the text of the proclamation which is almost entirely the work of Lincoln himself Lincoln characterizes his order as an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity. These words capture the essential character of Lincoln s work in the document. on the one hand he perceived the proclamation as a kind of military tactic that would aid the

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