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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 – 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 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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Lincoln and the Transcendent Constitution: (2) The Apple of Gold and the Picture of Silver

December 31, 2008

     The first evidence of Lincoln's view of the Constitution for us to consider is from an undated fragment found among Lincoln's presidential papers after his death.  Some scholars believe that this was written shortly after Lincoln took office in 1861, and that it may have been intended as a response to his friend Alexander Stephens, the [...]

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