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Wisdom and Consent

Peoria is remembered for the speech Abraham Lincoln gave there in 1854. This act of statesmanship began the greatest struggle in American history to bring wisdom together with consent—the struggle for a new birth of freedom in a land devoted to freedom but shackled to slavery. The Peoria Project sponsors and cultivates the continuing search for the wisdom that deserves consent.

David Tucker

David Tucker is a historian and writer. His most recent publication is "A Lockean Aristotle: Wisdom, Consent, and Equality—According to Harry V. Jaffa," Perspectives on Political Science (2024)

To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2024.2323750