Did Lincoln Ever Even Read the Declaration of Independence?
November 30, 2015
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
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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