Lawfare
The Lincoln memorial. (William Pei Yuan, https://tinyurl.com/hvw88xve; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
A review of Noah Feldman, “The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).
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“It only has been radicals who have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. … If that’s what radical means, call me a radical.”
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