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Country, the house of representatives has impeached only two presidents. a third was on his way to impeachment when he resigned. this committee has voted to impeach two presidents for obstructing justice. we have voted to impeach one president for obstructing a congressional investigation. to the extent that president trump's conduct fits these categories, there is precedent for recommending impeachment here. but never before in the history of the republic have we been forced to consider the conduct of a president who appears to have solicited personal political favors from a foreign governmen...

Impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors under the constitution. in particular, the memorandum and other testimony relating to the july 25th, 2019 phone call, between the two presidents, president trump and president zelensky, more than sufficiently indicates that president trump abused his office by soliciting the president of ukraine to investigate his political rivals in order to gain personal political advantage, including in relation to the 2020 election. again, the words abuse of office are not magical. the abuse of office occurs when the president uses a feature of his power, the awesom...

Members of the constitutional convention actually moved to take out the impeachment provision from the draft constitution. and they had a reason for that, and the reason was they said well, the president will have to stand for re-election. and if the president has to stand for re-election, that is enough. we don't need a separate provision for impeachment. when that proposal was made, significant disagreement ensued. the governor of north carolina, a man called william davy, immediately said if the president cannot be impeached, quote, he will spare no effort or means whatever to get himself r...

People. the way it derives these powers is through elections. elections matter. both to the legitimacy of our government and all of our individual freedoms because as the supreme court declared more than a century ago, voting is preservative of all rights. so it is hardly surprising that the constitution is marvelled with provisions governing elections and guaranteeing governmental accountability. indeed, a majority of the amendments to our constitution since the civil war have dealt with voting or with terms of office. among the most important provisions of our original constitution is the gu...

A demeaning role they were degrading our country. to him for what he said important enough in. private property and the role of the market and now set to be enshrined in a new constitution but this still has to be officially approved in a referendum certainly that way though i agree with what's happening and i hope other changes in our country will also be taken into account through further modifications of the constitution that mining a lake eleven to the same player the private sector should be recognised but companies like cooperatives are more in line with our system which is socialism bec...