The Constitution at War With Itself

The Broken Constitution Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 368 pp., $30 In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln cast the nation as “conceived in liberty” and “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In doing so, he drew on the Declaration of Independence, dating … Continue reading The Constitution at War With Itself