Harry Jaffa suggested that Americans should adopt a “civil religion,” with Lincoln as a quasi-divine figure. This, of course, ...

Which, in good lawyerly form, would itemize the reasons why the independence of the 13 British North American colonies and the organization as the United States of America was justified.

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ... of the United States and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were ...