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...appropriately, efface himself. Lincoln insists on his simple caretaking role: "the executive['s] . . . duty is to administer the present government, as it...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor" (AL, 4:270). Not only Lincoln, but all "the people" are bound by the Constitution in precisely the...

...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2, p. 532. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Why should there not be a patient confidence in the...people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world? "First Inaugural Address" — First Edition and Revisions, March 4, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works...

...z 3 < s ss 3 'S JC = a: I cc I •§ 8 .5 I p 1 II ll L; a. < a. si I'Jl ri ^ tf -j-. a; 1ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" Lincoln urged a change in the direction of governmental policy by claiming to correct the mistakes...

...fly to anarchy or to despotism.... The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people.... His duty is to administer the present government,...transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.... In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil...

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