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Originally Posted by hendrixpujols11
Woah woah woah. The political parties were pretty different back then. One of Lincoln's main achievements and goals was fighting for a BIG government and less states' rights and more central rights. As far as I am concerned, those aint GOP values.
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The ideals are the same, the situations are different. In Lincoln's time, it was thought by many people that states could do what ever they thought was constitutional (witness Civil War and secession). The federal government was too weak, and the Republican ideal was stronger. Today, the federal government is too powerful and the states are left to write their own traffic laws, and the Republican ideal is weaker.