The Ethically-Constrained President

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Jan 6, 202052:59News & Politics

No, not our current president. Another one, perhaps the greatest in our history: Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was anti-slavery, but he didn’t believe that the Constitution gave him the power to ban slavery where it existed....

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