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Lincolnian

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adj.1.of or pertaining to Abraham Lincoln.
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Adj.1.Lincolnian - of or relating to or in the manner of Abraham Lincoln


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However, even in the turbulent post-Civil war period, when many Americans had come to view states' rights as hostile to the Lincolnian dogma of union at any cost, most members of Congress still understood the principle of federalism relative to religion.
So let's not hesitate to say: We want the government, responding to the Lincolnian definition of democracy, to organize a system that gives free medical care to everyone and pays for it out of a reformed tax system that is truly progressive.
Here his fluid, Darwinian view of political institutions apparently bested his Lincolnian attachment to law.
 
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