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To: Don Corleone

While the founding fathers included a method for removal, you can be sure they were aware of the tried and true and totally effective means to remove an offending office holder.

They just decided it was the best course to leave it out. Since everybody knew, it was not necessary to blatantly point it out.


7 posted on 12/11/2014 8:08:50 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

“While the founding fathers included a method for removal, you can be sure they were aware of the tried and true and totally effective means to remove an offending office holder.”

One of the key methods for the removal of U.S. Senators was the power of state legislatures to elect and remove a U.S. Senator. This check and balance against the 6 year term of a U.S. Senator was removed by a later Constitutional Amendment that took away the power of the state legislature and gave the power of election to a popular vote with no means of removing or recalling a U.S. Senator without a nearly impossible to achieve impeachment vote by the Congress only. So, the checks and balances provided by the Founding Fathers has been removed to the detriment of the Citizen voters.


12 posted on 12/11/2014 12:03:40 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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