Reply #57: Protection of the Constitution in His Time Involved Slavery.

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Slavery was a constitutional right in 1860.

He wasn't great because he protected the Constitution. What made him great was that he realized that he had to take a risk, and in 1863 he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

If he hadn't been killed, who knows whether or not the 13th(?)-15th amendments would have been passed.

Not that the 14th amendment has helped anyone but a corporation, but that's beside the point.

Lincoln risked everything, including public opinion, for what he knew was right. And he was killed for it.

As was Martin Luther King, Jr., as was Ghandi, as was Robert Kennedy.

You believe, you lead, you die.