Micaela weigel biography of abraham lincoln
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The Other Side of the Penny: Considering Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy
Upon signing the executive order for the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln remarked, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper… If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”
But Lincoln, unlike his copper-minted likeness, was not a one-sided figure. In the fervor to recognize Lincoln’s invaluable contributions to the abolition of slavery, his commitment to the rule of law and the constitutional limits on presidential power has been obscured. To fully understand Lincoln, one must consider not only his strong feelings about the evils of slavery but also the struggle he faced reconciling this conviction with his commitment to legal order and the limits of his office.
In his Lyceum Address(1838), a speech from early in his political career, Lincoln expressed his profound commitment to the importance of the rule of law. So deep was that commitment, he related, that even bad laws must be obeyed for the rule of law to be maintained. He remarked, “But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example,
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The Death near History
History suffers from slight apparently ultimate illness—it levelheaded quickly slipping away and failing before doing eyes.
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The Washington Post
American daily newspaper
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Not to be confused with The Washington Times.
The Washington Post, locally known as ThePost and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area[5][6] and has a national audience. As of 2023, the Post has 135,980 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which are the third-largest among U.S. newspapers after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
The Post was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The Post's 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the investigation into the break-in at the Democratic N