[USS Alaska]

He was a determined individual and shrewd.
Saved the union by destroying the Constitution.

After correcting your misspellings, I disagree.

He didn't destroy the Constitution, he did kick it in the balls.

It yelped, laid down and and recovered.

The USA was under assault then, as it is now, and Honest Abe, took extreme measures, and they worked.

Destroyed the Constitution, HELL NO, it is still working, you stupid ...

[Skooz]

Uh oh. You triggered the anti-Abe mob.

Incoming.

[BenLurkin]

Please forgiventhe typos. Working on a teentiny keyboard and zcreen.

[DiogenesLamp]

The USA was under assault then, as it is now, and Honest Abe, took extreme measures, and they worked.

He broke the amendment process. There was no possible way that states would willingly vote for the 13th amendment, and using the Army to threaten states to do as Washington DC directed them is not a valid constitutional means of ratifying an amendment.

Then there were the threats and bribes he put forth to do it.

I think breaking the ratification process is defacto breaking the constitution, and Lincoln flat out defied Article IV, section 2.

[axxmann]

So the federal government abides by the enumerated powers clause today?
He destroyed the constitution.