Includes index.

Introduction / Nicholas Buccola -- Part I. Lincoln and democracy -- Prosperity and tyranny in Lincoln's Lyceum Address / John Burt -- Providentialism and politics: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the problem of democracy / Michael Zuckert -- Part II. Lincoln and liberty -- Lincoln and the ethics of emancipation: universalism, nationalism, exceptionalism / Dorothy Ross -- What if honest abe was telling the truth? Natural rights, race, and legalism in the political thought of Lincoln / Nicholas Buccola -- Part III. Lincoln and equality -- "The vital element of the Republican Party": antislavery, nativism, and Lincoln / Bruce Levine -- Lincoln's competing political loyalties: antislavery, union, and the constitution / Manisha Sinha -- Part IV. Lincoln as a liberal democratic statesman -- Four roads to emancipation: Lincoln, the law, and the proclamation / Allen Guelzo -- Lincoln's Kantian Republic / Steven B. Smith.

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