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Article: Lincoln's Constitution.(Book Review)

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LINCOLN'S CONSTITUTION. By Daniel Farber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 240. $27.50.

The year is 1860. After failing to obtain, as he had expected, the Democratic Party nomination for President at its Charleston convention, Stephen Douglas abandons his candidacy. In the ensuing election, Democrat John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky edges Republican Abraham Lincoln. (1) The official platform of the Democratic Party includes endorsement of the Dred Scott decision, slavery's expansion in the federal territories, rigorous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, and elimination of the tariff. Abolitionists in New England are inconsolable. For several ...

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