All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them.
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln affirmed that the Constitution's explicit provisions ensure the vital rights of minorities and individuals, preventing fundamental disputes over them.
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.
Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.
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