来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第21集第21集》

restore that state to the Union as quickly as possible,

尽快将本州归还联邦
even before the war ends, by presidential authority,

甚至在战争结束之前这是总统的权利
under presidential war powers,

在总统的战争威力下
and begin a process

开始一个进程
before you'd ever have a surrender

在你对他所谓的
of what he was already calling restoration, or reunification.

归还或统一投降之前
He wanted it done by executive authority.

他希望以行政权力完成它
That wasn't necessarily a personal power grab by any means

这绝对不是一场必要的个人权利争夺
but he wanted to do it under presidential war powers,

但是他想利用总统的战争权利
because he did understand,

林肯非常清楚
to the extent anybody could predict the future,

一个任何人都可以预见未来
that once the war did end, congress's powers would rise.

一旦战争结束国会的权利将增长