Hello Edward, "Many people will praise Lincoln, but he in fact destroyed and abolished the Constitution as it was written in 1787. Thereby changing forever the interpretation of the Federal Governments powers to what they are today, A bureaucratic dictatorship."

When I read this I could not help but think of President Andrew Jackson and his blatant disregard for the Constitution when he disagreed with the decision of the United States Supreme Court when they reversed their decision in the State of Georgia over the Indian removal act. I think Jackson said something along the lines and I will paraphrase "I have an Army to enforce my policy and the United States Supreme Court does not." I would agree that Congress had authorized the Indian removal act and Jackson did not act alone as it appears that Lincoln had done years later. And we know Jackson's response to Calhoun over the issue of South Carolina leaving the Union.

As we know the majority of our states today have threatened to leave the United States at one time or another.

Since the majority of the United States Supreme Court appears to have been southern men in 1860, I've always wondered why the subject of a state leaving the Union was not argued in a case before the Supreme Court prior to the war. As I understand the Constitution at that particular time there was nothing saying a state could not leave the Union. If the Court had ruled that a state or states could leave the Union would Lincoln have echoed Jackson's phrase?