Asymptosis: Always Approaching

Abraham Lincoln Sure Thought Majority Rule Was a Constitutional Principle

No mean constitutional thinker, he.

364,511 American soldiers died for that principle between 1860 and 1865, after the southern states refused to go along with Lincoln’s majority-rule election. 281,881 were wounded.

He coulda just rolled over.

But what’d he know? He was just one of those pointy headed coastal elitist intellectuals.

Oh…wait…

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    Well, actually, Lincoln got a majority of the electoral college. He got a plurality (~40%) of the popular vote. He won the non-slave states. He was not even on the ballot of a lot of southern slave states.