On the recordJuly 4, 1861
Whatever concerns the whole world should be confided to the whole--to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “Whatever concerns the whole world should be confided to the whole--to the General Government; while whatever concerns…”
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Lincoln articulated a core tenet of federalism, assigning matters of broad concern to the national government and local issues to individual states.
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