Quote Originally Posted by Kaminarii View Post
I have to say you can't really call any of the presidents tyrants, seeing as they truely have to power over what happens in the country, the true tyrants would be the congress.
If I wanted to, I could Lincoln a tyrant if you really take into consideration how unconstitutional some of his actions were. He did suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil war, along with the freedom of speech in subduing newspapers and anti-war protesters. Potentially, if he had not been assassinated by Booth, he may have been impeached by congress as they review some of his decisions.