nonsense. Lincoln sought to defend the constitution against insurrectionists attempting to tear our nation apart... as any good president would do.
With all due respect, Lincoln wasn’t defending the Constitution. He was trying to restore the Union at the point of many many guns. In retrospect, it was the right call. But please don’t say that it was Constitutional. It wasn’t.
If you study the discussions at the Constitutonal Convention, you might question if the United States were ever really united. This is evidenced by the strained language in the Constitution concerning slavery.
Also, as I've mentioned in another post, I question if citizens were ever taught the idea of a constitutonally-limited power federal government.