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Contended that it was individuals, not states who had rebelled and that the constitution gave the president the power to pardon individuals.
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| "I wish to make the south’s return to the union as quick and easy as possible" | |
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| “After ten percent of those on the voting lists took this oath of allegiance, a confederate state could form a new state government and gain representation in congress†| |
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| “I can prevent it becoming law by simply ignoring it†| |
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According to the constitution a president has ten days to either sign or veto a bill passed by congress… A bill is passed less than ten days before the end of a congressional session.
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| Radical responded to the ten-percent plan by passing the wade which proposed the congress, not the president, be responsible for reconstruction. | |
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| But moderate reconstruction plan angered a minority of republicans in congress, the radical republicans. | |
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