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You remain a fucking imbecile. Only to the most brain-dead conservative is "freeing," "seizing."You're a fucking retard.You're an imbecile -- he attempted to free the slaves, he didn't attempt to seize them.
It's semantics really. Freeing the slaves is tantamount to seizing them. It would be like if Obama sent the military to my house and blew up my SUV... he didn't seize it, but he rendered it invalid as a property asset... so it's the same thing. The president has no such authority under the Constitution.
"Freeing" is not "seizing." If anything, it's the antithesis of "seizing." And it's not "semantics" ... it's the English language, which is clearly a struggle for you.
From a Constitutional perspective and under the 4th Amendment, freeing slaves was the same as seizing property. This is why the Emancipation Proclamation could not apply to Northern states and didn't free any slaves in Northern slaves states or areas in the South under Union control.
Now, semantics arguments over dictionary definitions which can be applied to all sorts of various context, has nothing to do with the 4th Amendment or Constitution. You can ignorantly believe that, but you are a simple-minded idiot.
I provided the definition but there's nothing I can do to help you understand it.
And it's not semantics ... the words have different meanings altogether.