[TBP]

And yet he nibbled at the Constitution himself.

[DiogenesLamp]

And yet he nibbled at the Constitution himself.

Out and out broke it many times in the pursuit of his political goals. Left the nation with the relationship between the federal government and the states, very greatly changed from how he found it.

The Federal became the master of the states instead of the servant.

[crz]

Yes he did. AND most of it was because of the press doing their part to undermine the federals cause in favor of the south.

Many instances of the press writing of strategic plans “telegraphing” to the southern press.

One being of a so called history writer hiding behind a stump (at night) while Grant discussed plans with his staff. Burnside, later had ordered he be executed in which Grant countermanded those orders and let the SOB go.

I would have shot the SOB right then and there.

Sherman correctly said that if all the press was killed, that they would be getting news from hell by morning...Paraphrasing.

[FLT-bird]

And yet he nibbled at the Constitution himself.

He didn't nibble at the Constitution. He comprehensively trashed it. Its difficult to think of a single one of the Bill of Rights he did not trample.