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Lincoln saw himself following in the footsteps of another president. Thomas Jefferson also believed that the president and Congress were in no way inferior to the Court. Jefferson told a friend the Constitution “has wisely made all the departments coequal and co-sovereign within themselves.” In so doing, the founders took into account fallen human nature. Both Jefferson and Lincoln believed courts were capable of violating the Constitution and undermining constitutional government. Ultimately, of course, as we know, Lincoln proposed that the Constitution be amended to outlaw slavery—and it was, with the Thirteenth Amendment.Well said.