Didn't stop Lincoln... Sure it did. It was Davis who ignored his constitution at a whim.
BTW, what fraternity did you belong ?
Ask mojitojoe. He knows more about me than I do.
Don't count me in the group that faults the "Goon" for what he did to his people and the US Constitution. I am not interested at what he did the the US people 1861-1865, really doesn't interest me the internal politics of a foreign country. It is like asking me when judging the crime of rape, do I care how tightly the rapist binds his victims wrists.
Since being forced back into the Federal Empire I am affected by what Saint Abe started, seems the progressives will finish his "work".