Author:  Peter Block
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In his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: Words That Remade America, Garry Wills {2006} argues that it was Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address who transformed America's individualism-oriented Constitution, with all its checks and balances, into a vision of the common good. Lincoln is the de facto godfather of the common good."

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