Abraham Lincoln claimed that it his goal of invading the South was to preserve the Union, but his hidden agenda was to turn the union of sovereign states into a powerful nation where the citizens of the states became subjects of the corporation and the power of "We the People" had been successfully transferred to a National Crime Syndicate. In order to create this new nation he had to violate the Constitution he pretended to revere. The nation was purchased with the lives of 600,000 Americans.