You might. But you would not be correct.
Several years ago when I sat in on a three hour Politics of the Civil War class (Great Class!) at an Ivy, I made the statement during the discussion that I have made here: that Lincoln destroyed the government bequeathed to us by Jefferson and Madison. The professor mostly let it go during the class. But during a private 20 minute discussion afterward he confided that he could not write the things I was saying during the class and remain part of the Civil War Academic Community. About Lincoln destroying the government, his comment was, "We, he had help." We agreed that maybe Wilson and FDR did help a little, but that both probably took their cues from Lincoln.
ML/NJ
But I am correct and you are wrong.
Lincoln fought to preserve the Constitution and the Confederate democrats fought to destroy it and still do through their legacy of Wilson and FDR and up till today.