Directions: Use the following quotation to answer the questions below. “[T]he maintenance . . . of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment [alone], is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend. . . .” —Abraham Lincoln, 1st inaugural address, March 4, 1861 What is the “domestic institution” that Lincoln refers to in his inaugural address?