[WhiskeyPapa]

Lincoln established the supremacy of federal authority over the rights of the state governments.

Supreme Court rulings as early as 1793 did that. See Chisholm v. Georgia.

George Washington urged an immovable attachment to the national union.

President Lincoln used the power given the president in the Constitution to preserve the government established by the framers.

Walt

[tacticalogic]

President Lincoln used the power given the president in the Constitution to preserve the government established by the framers.

He preserved the reach and range of authority of the government. The government itself wasn't under attack. It was a secession, not a revolution or an insurrection.