It stretches from Washington expanding the standing army for the genocidal war against Native Americans to Obama’s use of secret evidence to justify assassinating American citizens by drones. With every new claim, executive power continues to accumulate and grows unchecked. I am sure someone has explained the Constitution to Trump occasionally but his interpretations of the. They have been making up their own powers where there is none. Trump doesnt read, he is the first to admit it. He has suspended the Writ of Habeus Corpus by indefinitely detaining people after abducting them off the streets by unknown persons who refuse to identify themselves. Since Washington, presidents have exploited the uncertainty about what presidents may not do to assert powers they do not have. This current president, sworn to defend the Constitution, has violated every provision. The Constitution’s silence on powers forbidden to the president is the cause of our constitutional crisis. By not explicitly prohibiting any power to the president they designed it to have virtually unlimited power. The presidency was designed to prevent the rule “of one, a few, or many,” as Madison famously put it in “Federalist Paper #47.”īut, unlike the “powers forbidden” to Congress, they never specified which powers are forbidden to the president. The Constitution provides few enumerated powers for the executive branch, most of which can be checked by the other branches. The framers concentrated power into the hands of a single person to protect the propertied elite in order to provide a minority check of the majority. Constitution Serves the Few,” the cause of this danger is the Constitution itself. As I show in my new book “ We the Elites: Why the U.S. Trump is a symptom of 233 years of accumulated unlimited power of the presidency. If that happens it will be game over for American representative democracy. Failing to do so will only embolden him or one of his allies to try again. To be honest, I have never thought about the question of whether the Vice President could reject the electoral vote other than to reject the notion outright as it was contrary to what I had been taught back in my civics courses. The only way out of our constitutional crisis is to perp walk President Trump in belly chains. Answer (1 of 16): Well, Tom, that is an interesting question. Yet, he has not been charged with sedition.
6 House Committee has provided extensive evidence of President Donald Trump’s criminal efforts to stay in office, despite losing the election.
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