The Relationship Between the Declaration and the Constitution

You are the nation's leading authority on Abraham Lincoln. I'd like to spend a little bit of time talking about another great authority on Lincoln since past. Harry Jaffa, the great American political philosopher, scholar of Lincoln's political philosophy and much else. And you were a frequent recipient of his infamous late night phone calls. In 2018, you wrote a beautiful essay for the Claremont review of books titled, Harry and me, Harry JaffA's Lasting Influence. At the end of this essay, you enumerate a series of questions you say you wish you could have asked, but as you write, quote, I sit beside the phone, realizing that the answers must come from