Randall thought Lincoln was closest to Jefferson among the founders, owed the most to jefferson's ideas for his own. Randall, Constitutional Problems, Foreward To The Revised Edition, xx.
I cannot imagine a more dissimilar thinker or politician from Lincoln than Jefferson, in the most important ways, including secession, sovereignty, states rights, origins of political authority in the colonies, the states, and then in the Republic, .
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