Lincoln and the Broken Constitution
The Lawfare Podcast
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What a Great Constitutional Thinker He Was
jack: Can you imagine a presidnt o the united states to day doing all his crucial constitutional thinking in moments of crisis, when he's also trying to run a war? I mean, to be fair, lincoln was pretty bad at running the war. But let me give you an example of a piece of reasoning that counts as great, whether you like it or not. Jack: Lincoln came up with is really entirely on his own under conditions of high pressure. Same with his necessity driven arguments. And i would conclude by saying, part of this is we can look at what the long term verdicts were, if the supreme court explissitly repudiated that idea
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