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reaches the balancing of policy considerations, those are decisively outweighed by the sort of republic shattering consequences of subjecting our chief executives in an endless cycle to prosecution once they leave office. the founders were very much against that, they were deeply concerned with that, you see that in hamilton's writings in federal 65, 69 and 77, and in federalist 47, and that is the original meaning of the constitution. >> i think we should -- it just occurred to me, do you think we should take any cognizance of the fact that when they wrote that, george washington was the president? very, very strong executive, the congress was brand-new, the -- everything else was brand-new.