The Art of the Deal
The shouts pass over the water to Lincoln.He sits there, silent. The man who, more than any other, overstepped his authority in a time of war. Habeas corpus suspended. A nation half at arms. And the question underneath all of it, whether any nation so conceived and dedicated could long endure.He broke the limit. But he never pretended he was above it. He answered to the Congress, to the ballot, to the cost, and he paid that cost in the open for the only stake that could justify it. The Republic.Real power accepts its limits. Performed power breaks them, and breaks the one thing we can’t…
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