A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM

A New Birth of Freedom

A New Birth of Freedom

Introduction

Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of the United States of America was born on 12th February 1809 and he was assassinated on 15th April 1865. As a president of the greatest nation of the world united states of America, he experienced great military, constitutional and moral crisis in the form of civil war- Preserving the union while promoting economic modernization and ending slavery. His family background wasn't quite ordinary, and he was mostly self-educated. He was a loving, though often busy and absent husband and a father of four children. He earned a law degree and became a country lawyer, a one term member of the U.S House of Representatives and an Illinois state legislator but could not succeed in his two attempts to secure a seat in the united state senate. (Charles, 1997)

Abraham Lincoln's contribution to political theory may be analyzed in terms of the theoretical, practical, and historical implications of his thought and leadership. Theoretically, his speeches and writings provide one of the greatest moral justifications of democracy ever given to the world. Practically, his actions provide a model of prudent statesman-ship that is, the ability to apply moral principles correctly under the legal, social, and political circumstances of the time. Historically, he is at the center of America's national myth, the sustaining narrative that defines us as a common people based not on blood, but on fidelity to the principles of the Declaration. As the embodiment of the American experiment, Lincoln has represented the following things to the American people: the great emancipator, the savior of the Union, man of the people, , and the self-made man. (Jaffa, 2004)

Although he was not a political theorist person, Lincoln articulated some of the most profound and enduring insights about the nature of equality, liberty, democracy, constitutionalism, and the meaning and destiny of the American experiment in self-government. His Gettysburg Address, which distilled the essence of the American creed, famously defines democracy as a form of government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” (Boritt, 2006)

Discussion

Beginning with the now-iconic saying "Four tally and seven years ago,” mentioning to the American Revolution of 1776, Lincoln analyzed the origin principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and utilized the Ceremony at Gettysburg as an opening not only Gettysburg as an opening not only to consecrate the grounds of a cemetery, but furthermore to exhort the listeners to double-check the survival of America's representative democracy, that the government of the persons, by the persons, will not perish from the earth.

Despite the speech's famous location in the annals and well liked heritage of the United States. The accurate wording of the speech is disputed. The five renowned manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address disagree in several minutes and furthermore, disagree from up to designated day newspaper reprints of that speech.

He was engaged in a large civil war, checking if that territory, or any territory, so believed and so dedicated, ...