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  • 2019-01-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Lincoln Say 'We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts'? (en)
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  • Despite the memetic admonition -- frequently attributed to Abraham Lincoln -- not to trust quotes one finds on the internet, a purported statement from the 16th U.S. President himself has been widely circulated as an online meme. The words attributed to Lincoln in the meme hold that the Illinois politician believed We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who wold pervert the Constitution: Cautionary memes aside, the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress document that Lincoln did indeed write these words, which are preserved among his notes for speeches he delivered in the latter part of 1859: As the Library of Congress observed, the words in question appeared among notes in which Lincoln worked out how to articulate his policy on slavery, and his positions on popular sovereignty and the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision: (en)
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