"And Then There Was Lincoln" on 'Your Weekly Constitutional'
"We all learned in grade school that Abraham Lincoln \u201csaved the Union.\u201d But, in saving our nation, did he destroy our Constitution? He did some pretty extreme things, after all, from suspending habeas corpus to signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Were his actions constitutionally justified, or not? We\u2019ll talk to Daniel Farber, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and who presented this year\u2019s R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture at Lincoln Memorial University\u2019s Duncan School of Law."\xa0\n\nYour Weekly Constitutional is hosted by Constitutional Law Professor Stewart Harris. Stewart teaches Constitutional Law at the Appalachian School of Law (ASL) in Grundy, Virginia. In 2011, Professor Harris created a public radio show, Your Weekly Constitutional, which is produced at WETS-FM, the NPR affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, and syndicated nationally.\xa0 YWC is underwritten by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at Montpelier, the historic home of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.