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I cought just that phrase from an @npr program last night. I'm not even sure which one because I was driving and traffic turned sour, fast. So after my drive I did some searching, and found this article[link:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-founding-fathers-debate-over-what-constituted-impeachable-offense-180965083/| from the @Smithsonian that tells of the debate over impeachment at the constitutional convention. I feel each and every US citizen should read what George Mason had to say in 1787 on the subject. My favorite part:
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Welcome to DU.
Trump does feel he should be a king. And the GOP has no problem with stealing elections, and illegal acts in general that benefit the GOP.
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ProudProgressiveNow
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(15,290 posts)Can't imagine this happening to those non-elected electors...
Such a good article in the Smithsonian.
But on this point, Madison objected. The scholarly Princeton graduate, a generation younger than Mason at age 36, saw a threat to the balance of powers hed helped devise. So vague a term will be equivalent to a tenure during pleasure of the Senate, he argued. In other words, Madison feared the Senate would use the word maladministration as an excuse to remove the president whenever it wanted.
So Mason offered a substitute: other high crimes and misdemeanors against the State. The English Parliament had included a similarly worded phrase in its articles of impeachment since 1450. This compromise satisfied Madison and most of the other Convention delegates. They approved Masons amendment without further debate, 8 states to 3, but added against the United States, to avoid ambiguity.
For the welcome. I have mostly been lurking for the last sevetal months. A great community!
That article has so many tasty bits that directly apply to the condition our government is in today.
Mason, Madison, and Randolph all spoke up to defend impeachment on July 20, after Charles Pinckney of South Carolina and Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania moved to strike it. [If the president] should be re-elected, that will be sufficient proof of his innocence, Morris argued. [Impeachment] will render the Executive dependent on those who are to impeach