[Lee Heggy]

I beg your pardon...Lincoln's seizure of powers not delegated to him by the Constitution, in the name of "saving" the Constitution ? destroyed constitutional government in America, and opened the door to the Progressives and the Democrats.

Lincoln's usurpation, and his fundamental alteration of the American political system, destroyed the structural barricades which protected the United States from the horror of unlimited democracy, i.e., from a government which used success at the ballot box as a justification for reshaping society in its own image. Do you think 'Liberals' in their present incarnation spontaneously appeared? THAT is 'silly' sir.

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Lincoln's seizure of powers not delegated to him by the Constitution, in the name of "saving" the Constitution destroyed constitutional government in America...

What seizures were those?