Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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first heard Feb 2026
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That's created by fiat.
And we can just be honest about that, that it does not follow the regular course.
And neither, you know, the 14th Amendment is in a way sort of the Southern states are kind of extorted to support that as a condition for being readmitted.
And so there is an extra legal dimension here that as Americans, we need to acknowledge that it has not been a kind of smooth and uniform democratic process all the way through, that the war itself creates the conditions where people like Lincoln
feel empowered.
And Lincoln is really conservative when it comes to the law.
But even Lincoln felt empowered to take that step of saying we are going to Congress is going to pass the 13th Amendment and then we are going to basically require southern states at the end of the war to ratify it.
And, you know, so we need to acknowledge that even as we acknowledge the continuity of democracy and the expansion of democracy.
that there are moments when this happens when you have to watch very carefully the boundaries of how that legal change is occurring.
It is.
So Juneteenth is the end.
I mean, we sort of regard it as an anniversary ending slavery, the moment when the last U.S.
troops reached sort of the part of Texas where the news of the Emancipation Proclamation hasn't necessarily reached.
And, I mean, in fact, slavery doesn't end until the very end of the year in Kentucky.
As Lincoln had always promised, slavery would remain intact in the Union and under the Constitution longer than outside of it.
And so enslaved people are held in bondage even past that point.
The interesting thing that I hear you raising here is how we think about this at this moment today, at the 250th, because so much of the, certainly from the White House and the kind of, even the sort of official channels of thinking about this, are a very narrow...
reading that goes backwards as opposed to going forwards which is in fact what lincoln is trying to do at gettysburg is to say what is the most important and best part of what the founders were hoping to accomplish your word at the beginning here of becoming you know and and it's a brilliant use of the passive voice lincoln did it once or twice so i'll allow it
You know, that we understand that America is not static and that there is a core here in our sort of best moments of democratic inclusivity, of expanding the circle of we and that what Lincoln did and what Northern Victory meant was that that process continued.
And what I hope we take from that today is understanding that we can continue to move forward.
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