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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth of July

July 3, 2009

     Lincoln revered the Declaration of Independence, and several of his most significant utterances were made on or about the Fourth of July. 

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Lincoln and the Constitutionality of Emancipation

February 17, 2009

     Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery as strongly as any abolitionist: he said, "If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong."  But did he possess the power to end slavery?

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Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

February 10, 2009

    The Gettysburg Address is widely considered to be the greatest speech in American history.  In this essay both the style and the substance of the Address are analyzed.

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Lincoln and Secession: Address of July 4, 1861

February 6, 2009

     The essay posted Tuesday described the arguments that Abraham Lincoln made against secession in his First Inaugural Address of March 4, 1861.  Four months later on Independence Day, 1861, Lincoln returned to this subject and expanded upon his position in a special address to Congress.

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UA to Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth

February 4, 2009

The University of Akron will commemorate the 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth with a celebration on Feb. 12 at noon at The University of Akron Student Union in the Student Theater. The event is free and open to the public.
The celebration will be a birthday celebration featuring light refreshments and an appearance from [...]

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Lincoln and Secession – The First Inaugural

February 3, 2009

     As Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln opposed the secession of the southern states militarily and under his leadership the armed forces of the United States defeated the secessionist movement on the battlefield.  In his addresses to the American people, Lincoln mounted powerful arguments opposing secession on all fronts – on legal grounds, on political grounds, on economic grounds, on patriotic grounds, and [...]

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Lincoln's Style: The Greeley Letter

January 27, 2009

     I am greatly indebted to the students in my Jurisprudence class.  In three hours yesterday evening they gave me more insight into Lincoln's thought and work than I had gained in thousands of hours of solitary work.  I shall be drawing upon their ideas for some time to come.  In this posting I shall [...]

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Lincoln and Equal Opportunity

January 20, 2009

     Lincoln's greatness stems in part from his ability to summarize a difficult and complex problem in terms that everybody can understand.  The power of his prose is demonstrated in the following two passages on equal opportunity.

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Lincoln, Obama, and Shared Sacrifice

January 19, 2009

     In a previous posting I had predicted that Barack Obama would, in his Inaugural Address, call for shared sacrifice from all Americans.  It is now being widely reported that this will be a theme of his address.  What did Lincoln have to say about this, and as a practical matter, what sacrifices might Obama [...]

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So Help Me God

January 14, 2009

     Michael Newdow has filed suit to prohibit the Chief Justice John Roberts from stating and President-Elect Barack Obama from repeating the phrase "so help me God" following the oath of office next week at the Inauguration.  Three provisions of the Constitution bear upon this question: the Clause prescribing the presidential oath of office, the Establishment Clause, [...]

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Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses: What Will Obama Say?

January 13, 2009

     One week from today Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, and he has announced that Lincoln will be a theme for the Inauguration.  Obama will take the oath of office with the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861.  Will Obama model his Inaugural [...]

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Lincoln and the Transcendent Constitution: (3) The Rule of Law

January 5, 2009

     The first principle of Constitutional Law is that the Constitution is a law – a supreme and paramount law that governs the government.  Lincoln, a prairie lawyer, was devoted to the rule of law.

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