Category: Constitutional
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One Job – Follow the Constitution
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Congress has a limited role in a presidential election. Article II Section 1 as amended provides that the President of the Senate is to open and count the electoral votes from each state, in the presence of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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Pen v. Sword – First Amendment Rights
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It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. Is that way of thinking evidenced by the ordering of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights? Or is it just coincidence? Consider the First and Second Amendments. First Amendment – The Pen Think it. Believe it. The…
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Impeachment of a President – 1868
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The term “impeachment” is commonly misunderstood as being synonymous with removal from office. As used in the Constitution, impeachment refers to a formal accusation of misconduct. Following the issuance of formal articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives, the Senate is responsible for holding a trial on the accusations of misconduct. A few facts…
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“To Support and Defend the Constitution”
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Each officer and each enlisted member of the armed forces takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Many of them have given everything to fulfill that oath. Our elected representatives in Congress, in both the Senate and the House, each take an oath…
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Not Red. Not Blue. Just United.
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Studies have shown that even a random color assignment can dramatically affect how one person views another – based just on the other person’s randomly assigned color. Psychologists took a group of children, and randomly assigned each child to wear either a blue t-shirt or a red t-shirt. The children were then asked to look…