Don't be so black and white in your thought process. With your line of thinking, some Republican who cast the deciding vote or the very last State to ratify the amendment should be in the history books, but it aint that way.
You know from your reading that Lincoln had a lot to do with it. He struggled for years on how do make the abolition of slavery real, while ensuring that the act didn't make too much of a stink. That you give Congress credit for anything else than being the vehicle for this amendment is sheer sophestry. On 7/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:09:59 CDT, Dennis Henderson said: > Such two dimensional thinkin big V.... > Thus pressed, Lincoln staked a large part of his 1864 > presidential campaign on a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery > uniformly throughout the United States. Lincoln's campaign was bolstered by > separate votes in both Maryland and Missouri to abolish slavery in those > states. Maryland's new constitution abolishing slavery took effect in > November 1864. Please re-read Article 5 of the US Constitution, and point out where the President has anything to do with amendments. That's reserved to Congress and the various state legislatures (and presumably Dick Cheney in his not-an-executive-branch role). "Lincoln freed the slaves" is right up there with "Al Gore invented the Internet", for basically the same reasons. In both cases, they merely acted as enablers for somebody *else* to actually do it.
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