It is interesting to note that St Abraham is regularly used as the precident for ignoring the constitution when it suits our chief executives.
Yes, Lincoln is regularly used as the precedent by Lost Causers. I strongly suspect that similar infractions can be found to have been attempted by several of the previous fifteen administrations.
In the first place I am not a lost causer, in the second place the fact that someone you disagree with uses Lincoln as a precident, does not make it wrong.
Actually the person I was thinking of was the Russian who used Lincoln and his War to Prevent Southern Independence as a precident for threatening war over secession of various states from the old Soviet Union.... Additionally I believe there is or was a dustup going on in Checknya (SP) over that issue now, isn't there?