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Originally posted by RickC
Not perfect by any means, but no absolute rulers/Emperors yet!
Lincoln has come closest!
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U got that right....Suspended Habeaus Corpus, but to his everlasting greatness...he held the Presidential election of 1864, which he felt he would lose to McClellan, who wanted to make peace with the South, thus recognizing their independence from the Union.
Lincoln was villified in his own time even by his own Cabinet, who thought he was no better than a Baboon or monkey. It seems that the second after Lincoln died the country realized what it had lost...