Martin Van Buren created an efficient state political organization called the Albany Regency.
Established the power of judicial review for the US supreme court and lower federal courts, judges determine wether or not a law is unconstitutional or not, which led to US involvement in the french british war in 1803
As a young man, Lincoln enjoyed reading the works of deists<span> such as </span>Thomas Paine. He drafted a pamphlet incorporating such ideas but did not publish it. After charges of hostility to Christianity almost cost him a congressional bid, he kept his unorthodox beliefs private. <span>The one aspect of his parents' </span>Calvinist<span> religion that Lincoln apparently embraced wholeheartedly throughout his life was the "doctrine of necessity", also known as </span>predestination<span>, </span>determinism<span>, or </span>fatalism. <span>It was almost always through these lenses that Lincoln assessed the meaning of the Civil War.</span>
