CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings May 27, 2015
Weakened states rights. There is no question about that. The civil war brought about a huge strengthening of the federal government. A centralization of federal power in all sorts of ways. Just look at the first lincoln administration. They not only freed slaves liberating 3. 5 billion worth of property, but they created transcontinental railroads with federal power. They created the first income tax with federal power. They created a vast quartermaster corps, which was a huge agency with 100,000 federal employees by 1864, Engineering Contracts with private enterprise to win the war. The mobil...