President Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War

Tolstoy’s remarkable story on behalf of a man he viewed as one of earth’s greatest creations due to his manly virtue and human charity certainly deserves our attention and respect. It is reminiscent of things said by many of President John F. Kennedy, martyred nearly one hundred years later also by an assassin’s bullet. But one would be amiss to eclipse the politician for the person. Here we will consider Abraham Lincoln as a political figure.