SPREAD THE WORD! Kirby Center lunch/talk this Friday in DC - 'What Would Abraham Lincoln Do?'

The Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship of Hillsdale College ^ | 2/28/11 | Hillsdale College - Kirby Center

[hillsdale1]

The 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War offers an opportunity to reflect upon the wartime statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln. Impelled to the presidency by a constitutional crisis, Lincoln stood on the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution both before and during the Civil War. With special attention to what Americans today may learn from Lincoln as we grapple with a global war and prodigious debt, this lecture will illuminate Lincoln's example of self-government under law.

[Frantzie]

We can learn that if we get fed up with the islamist that the Fed govt will attack the people somewhate like Lincoln did. Statesman? I don’t think so.

[Little Ray]

If the New York Draft Riots are any indication, he’d send in the troops, with live ammo, fixed bayonets, armor and artillery.

[Moose4]

I don’t have the same level of hatred for Lincoln that a lot of other Southern/pro-Confederate-history folks on the forum do, but I’ll just say that if you’re bringing federalism into the discussion, Lincoln’s not exactly a good poster boy to use. He never lived to see the aftereffects of some of the things he did.

}:-)4

[FrankR]