Lincoln's New Constitution

Lincoln's defence of the compromise constitution, as you call it, was always in much more functionless rational, non emotional terms. Once slavery was taken out of the compromise by l Lincoln's act of emancipation, he began to be able to say that there was a new birth of freedom. And then when the thirteent, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are adopted, abolishing slavery, establishing equal protection of the laws,. which it's important to know did not exist in the original constitution of seventeghty seven. There was no equal protection clause in that constitution. And en franchising african americans, then it became possible to imagine the us Constitution as a moral