snook (plural snooks) 1  A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially Centropomus undecimalis, the common snook. 2  Any of various other fishes. See snook on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .
The reason why the Emancipation Proclamation was written was because Lincoln believed slavery was wrong. One of the questions often asked is why it only covered those of the rebelling states. The reason involved legalities. He did not have the authority to issue such a decree on states that were not seceeding.
Contemporary Examples. 1  The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action. 2  But the Emancipation Proclamation set his heart beating with thoughts of immortality. 3  But historians are already preemptively dousing our enthusiasm for the Emancipation Proclamation. the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.