Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, and continuous improvement
Considering two biographies of the Great Emancipator
Abraham Lincoln improved the Declaration of Independence.
He didn’t revise a single word of it. He didn’t need to. The words were always correct. The introduction, in particular, is timeless. But he expanded the scope of whom the words applied to.
The Declaration states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m…



