Question

Should abraham lincoln have been impeached

Answer 1

Basically, the issue here concerns whether the things that Lincoln did were justified by the fact that there was a war going on.  There were a number of things that Lincoln did that would surely have been impeachable offenses if there had not been a war but which were arguably permissible and justifiable because of the emergency.Lincoln did many things that were either clearly outside of his legal powers or at least possibly outside... hope this helps