• “The economics of the legal profession in sparsely populated Illinois were such that lawyers of the legal profession in sparsely populated Illinois were such that lawyers had to move about the state in the company of the circuit judge, trying thousands of small cases in order to make a living.” - Team of Rivals
• Kentucky admitted in 1792
• Thomas Lincoln was a small farmer (difficulty in securing title in Kentucky)
• The Lincoln Papers
• Inauguration
• The doctrine of necessity