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of American nationalism and the centralization
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of government that will come out of this war.
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Eleven of the first twelve amendments to the U.S.
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Constitution had been written to limit national power.
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This is just fundamental.
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It's one of Lincoln's less fundamental and astounding results.
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Six of the next seven constitutional amendments
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will be directly to increase federal power;
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more on that as we do Reconstruction.
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Power itself will shift from south to north,
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at least for awhile,
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in American political culture.