Online guide providing access to legal materials relating to Abraham Lincoln and his involvement with the law. The guide is made freely available by the Law Library of Congress as one of their series of Current Legal Topics. The first section covers his role as an Illinois lawyer and includes digitised versions of books about Abraham Lincoln, lectures and minutes of meetings of the Law Association of Philadelphia. The section entitled Habeas Corpus and the War Powers of the President includes books, letters and reviews focusing on Abraham Lincolnãs war powers and the suspension of habeas corpus during the American Civil War. The section dealing with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has transcripts and reports from the trial of the conspirators. Users can view the catalogue record for each item and the full text in PDF.
Lincoln and the Law
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