We remember another anniversary of The Lincoln-Douglas debates:
"Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Abraham Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and one-time U.S. representative from Illinois, begin a series of famous public encounters on the issue of slavery.
The two politicians, the former a Northern Democrat and the latter a Republican, were competing for Douglas' U.S. Senate seat.
In the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates--all about three hours along--Lincoln argued against the spread of slavery while Douglas maintained that each territory should have the right to decide whether it would become
free or slave.
free or slave.
Lincoln lost the Senate race, but his campaign brought national attention to the young Republican Party."
Wouldn't it be nice if we could debate complicated issues like that today?
What if we had a debate about the role of government? the level of taxation? our foreign policy?
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