So help me God
By John Vivian Cooke.
Exactly on the stroke of noon on 20 January, Donald Trump will be out of office. There will be no more lies, frauds, outrages, or broken laws from President Trump. His presidency as a whole, and the violent death throes of its final days, have stretched democratic norms to their breaking point, but the inevitable messy end of his term proved the resilience of the US Constitution.
Some of the dangers they sought to guard against were instability, confusion and attempts by factions to mask violence under the Constitution
The drafters of the Constitution foresaw exactly such a demagogue. They published extensive commentaries addressing concerns about the effective operation of republican forms of government. Their plan sought to resolve the paradox that without order there can be no freedom; to give sufficient powers to the government to allow it to fulfil its essential functions without diminishing the liberties of citizens. Som
Biden will appeal to national unity in inaugural address, says aide 17/01/2021, 5:10 pm
Joe Biden is planning a series of executive actions in the first hours after his inauguration (Matt Slocum/AP)
President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in on Wednesday and plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies, his incoming chief of staff has said.
Mr Biden is planning a series of executive actions in the first hours after his inauguration, an opening salvo in what is shaping up as a 10-day blitz of steps to reorient the country without waiting for Congress, aide Ron Klain said.
And on the other two occasions, presidents named Adams were involved.
President Donald Trump has said he will not attend President-elect Joseph Biden s inauguration on Wednesday, Jan. 20, claiming that his election victory was stolen with little in the way of evidence to support the charge. Two months after the election, Trump has not yet met or spoke to Biden, and has been impeached for a second time on a charge of promoting an insurrection to overturn the election results.
The nation s second president, John Adams, was the first sitting president to lose a re-election bid. He was on his way home to Quincy when Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office in 1801.