Answer:
Legalism focuses on God’s laws more than a relationship with God. It keeps external laws without a truly submitted heart. And legalism adds human rules to divine laws and treats them as divine. Many of us have encountered this type of wayward Christianity.
Explanation:
Senator William Henry Seward of New York (who was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as a secretary of state) argued that, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than the constitution"--- the law of god? That was in 1850.
Of nineteenth century, William Henry Seward was one of the foremost Politician.