President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters, a move that is sure to draw legal challenges as the president continues to demand further restrictions on voting ahead of this year's midterm elections.
They did intend the people to have both the right and the power to forcibly remove bad presidents: it’s been written into Article I since the beginning.
My personal take is that the framers of the Constitution never expected Congress to legislate themselves out of power, which is why many of the checks on executive power lie in their hands. But that is exactly what they’ve done.
I don’t think these majority Face Eating Party members have actually considered the fact that they’ve fucked themselves as much as they’ve fucked anyone else. But they’ll figure it out too, once they realize a king can appoint his own Congress: he doesn’t actually need them anymore either.
By people I meant the general population, not elected representatives.
So did I: this is supposed to be a representational democracy, with representatives picked locally, with elections held by each state, to represent their individual constituents at every level of government, near or distant.
If the people want a president gone, their representatives are supposed to be doing that for them. That is their specific job. Or to put it another way, if Congress were actually doing what they were elected and constitutionally empowered to do, there would be zero No Kings protests, because they’d have already used their powers to impeach.
The check on the elected representatives is that they are supposed to be disposable when bad, swapped out for better representatives through elections, which is part of why their term length is relatively short.
It used to work.