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[–] rejectedfromreddit 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Lincoln was doubtless a great leader, but his posthumous hero worship is a major disservice to the thousands of people who opposed expansive Federalism. It's rarely mentioned that he stomped all over habeus corpus, having a man arrested and held without trial in direct defiance of a the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (who was acting as a sort of Circuit Court Judge at the time) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman