In this brief interview, John J. Patrick, Professor Emeritus of Education at Indiana University, discusses the Abraham Lincoln Supplement, a short lesson sponsored by the Motorola Foundation that supplements the We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution, a civics text for high school students. "What Was Abraham Lincoln's Legacy to American Constitutionalism and Citizenship?" traces the rise of Lincoln from his humble beginnings to the presidency and examines Lincoln's ideas and decisions regarding slavery and the use of presidential power to preserve the Federal Union during the Civil War.
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Center for Civic Education 
