James Wilson was a Pennsylvania judge who was part of the third Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence and was part of the Constitutional Convention.

You can say suspending habeas corpus is no big deal but I would disagree. I don't think it would do me much good to try and persuade you it's a big deal. We will have to agree to disagree on the severity.

He had no right to tell Virginia it did or didn't have the right to secessed. It was the right of those states and he violated them.

How is him unilaterally removing the property of foreign citizens not a gross overreach of federal authority? And even if you still consider them as US citizens it's even worse.

Lincoln also opposed measures like expanding the Missouri compromise or allowing further states to choose to be free or slave states.

I do agree that objectively speaking Lincoln has a lot of admirable qualities and was a very accomplished man and was by most measures great

James Wilson was a Pennsylvania judge who was part of the third Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence and was part of the Constitutional Convention.

You can say suspending habeas corpus is no big deal but I would disagree. I don't think it would do me much good to try and persuade you it's a big deal. We will have to agree to disagree on the severity.

He had no right to tell Virginia it did or didn't have the right to secessed. It was the right of those states and he violated them.

How is him unilaterally removing the property of foreign citizens not a gross overreach of federal authority? And even if you still consider them as US citizens it's even worse.

Lincoln also opposed measures like expanding the Missouri compromise or allowing further states to choose to be free or slave states.