Before the war, when Slavery prevailed, the rule was otherwise, naturally; but, as I have already said, the grandest victory of the war was the establishment of the new rule by which the Declaration became supreme as interpreter of the Constitution.
He highlights the transformative impact of the Civil War on the interpretation of the Constitution through the lens of the Declaration.
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