If that’s what Jefferson meant about inalienable rights. You might want to check your history on this, Jefferson was elucidating the Lockean defense against the divine right of kings.
Second, people like you scare me with your Lincoln Machiavellian thought, the ends justify the means for you trample on the Rule of Law. Exactly where in the Constitution did Lincoln have the constitutional AUTHORITY to “preserve the Union” which is why he attacked the South after they seceded. Read his first Inaugural address before you come here and make assertions of which you seem to know nothing about. That he could make a silly argument about the supposed perpetuity of the Union does not mean that his argument is actually based in the Constitution..it wasn’t.
Third, your support of Lincoln suggests an attachment to arbitrary power, another thing that concerns me with your response. I’ll leave it there.
And you might want to check your history, Locke wasn’t just speaking about the divine right of kings, he was speaking of mankind in general, which he got from the Bible.
There was nothing arbitary about his power.
Lincoln was putting down an insurrection. The shooting was begun by the rebels. The War of the Rebellion ended when the rebellion ended.