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</html><description>Dan Kervick has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, and is an active independent scholar specializing in the philosophy of David Hume. He also does research in decision theory and analytic metaphysics. Originally published at New Economic Perspectives.  An important anniversary is approaching.&nbsp; On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.&nbsp; The proclamation that sounded the final end of the depraved institution of American slavery was presented to the nation and the world as an emergency war act, a &#x201C;fit and necessary&#x201D; measure for suppressing an armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States.&nbsp; The language of the Emancipation Proclamation is restrained by the customary legalisms of government writ; and yet, vibrating through and beyond the tight cords of executive propriety, the drama and permanence of Lincoln&#x2019;s statement sound clearly, along with the solemn national commitment to sustain the liberation of the newly freed men and women by force of arms:</description></oembed>

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