The Broken Constitution
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer.
When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States’ constitutional arrangements were not the ones we know today. It was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed…
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What happened to our Constitution during the Civil War? Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln, whose goal was to save the Union, had to break the Constitution to do so. But this rupture created the possibility of a new order. The original Constitution was filled with compromises, most notably between the supporters and opponents of slavery. But a broken document could be mended to eliminate those compromises and produce an anti-slavery Constitution.
I think this book is really insightful—it will change the way you think about what it means to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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