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To: WalleyB who wrote (6862)	4/27/1997 2:23:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	of 108807

Every war America has fought has increased the power of the central government. Lincoln's main focus may have been the preservation of the Union (not necessarily the goal of his Radical Republican partners), but it also greatly expanded the power of the national government. Lincoln instituted the first income tax and inflated the currency to pay for the war. He arrested political opponents in the North and held them without trial, he shut down newspapers critical of the war. He instituted the draft. The vast quantity of money spent on the war made fortunes for those with political connections. A class was created that learned how to make a good living from government contracts. The national government became pervasive with the Lincoln presidency. It's considered by some the end of the original American experiment in government. The current noise the Republican Party makes about "returning power to the States" is just that, noise. State government is now merely an administrative district of the national government, and they do as they are told by their masters in Washington.

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