Paul, you give Lincoln far too much credit, I fear. Take a look at his relations with African-Americans, his condescension, and worse. On the subject of race, he was a bad man, pure and simple.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Finkelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 10:51 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Are the Ten Commandments the foundation ofthe Anglo-Americanlegal system? ... Lincoln resurrected the promise of the D of I at Gettysburg and in his five years as President. ... _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
