Summary: Today on Notes on History Paul discusses certain topics in the Lincoln Administration. Now, if you wanted to stir up a hornet's nest, you COULD argue that secession was legal or you COULD argue that Lincoln's use of force against the seceding states represented an over-reaching of a President's powers. But that might cause some of Paul's lawyer friends to have a fit, and Paul wouldn't do that. That would be like poking a bear in its cage at the zoo. That's right. Poke.