Or was he hoping that most Americans had never read it, and that he could bamboozle them into a war “for the union”? You be the judge:
“It is safe to assume that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”
— Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address
“[T]o secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it . . .”
— Declaration of Independence
7:08 am on November 30, 2015
