We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ...
<span>Ten Percent Plan
The the most outspoken Confederates were not allowed to participate in any active role in the reestablished state governments under Lincoln's arrangement, and only 10 percent of a state's 1860 electorate was needed to take a dependability oath before Lincoln would perceive the state government they set up as legitimate. The Radicals objected the Lincoln's "Ten Percent Plan" in 1864.</span>
