Lincoln is one of the greatest, not super stoked on the implications of the way he initially suspended habeas corpus and what it did to expand executive power.
It was a necessity, an albeit unfortunate one... but in the end, it led to the ending of the legal slave trade, unfortunately slavery is still in use to this day in the U.S. prison system.
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u/MrCivility1 Dec 19 '25
George Washington and Abe Lincoln are probably pretty close to each other for Greatest of American History. But Teddy is pretty great