And though he would not have liked them very much, Lincoln would have well understood – and even sympathized with – Franco’s authoritarian methods of preserving national unity. It was Lincoln, after all, who suspended habeas corpus, ignored Supreme Court decisions prohibiting civilians from being tried in military courts, and undertook several other acts of questionable legality, all for the sake of preserving the Union.

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