In response to my recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, David Whittington writes in to the Journal with a nice Lincoln quote from 1838: “As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his property and his sacred honor; let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father and to tear the character of his own, and his children’s liberty.”