Lincoln and the Broken Constitution
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Greatest Constitutional Thinker - Lincoln
I want to go one more round on lincoln as a constitutional thinker. And your book, you know, really raises that and teets it up nicely for people to be able to assess. It was important t him that he act lawfully, that he follow the constitution. That was, i i think, for lincoln. You can correct me when after i asked this, of i'm wrong, but i think that was a kind of a bedrock principle. Another thing is, he did his own work. It his attorney general was hapless, pretty useless. He had some help from others, but he did a lot of this work himself, and he worked it. His arguments were
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