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All Lincoln said, all that was asked of him, was to preserve the Union.

Do you believe the Union came before the Constitution?

[WhiskeyPapa]

All Lincoln said, all that was asked of him, was to preserve the Union.

Do you believe the Union came before the Constitution?

Chief Justice Jay indicated that it did.

Jay, Chief Justice:-- "The Question we are now to decide has been accurately stated, viz.: Is a state suable by individual citizens of another state?...

The revolution, or rather the Declaration of Independence, found the people already united for general purposes, and at the same time, providing for their more domestic concerns by state conventions, and other temporary arrangements...the people nevertheless continued to consider themselves, in a national point of view, as one people; and they continued without interruption to manage their national concerns accordingly;"

-- From Jay's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia

Despite what any "baccer-chewin' morons" might say, there is not a nickel's worth of difference between the way Lincoln and the framers viewed the Constitution.

Walt