"The Failure to Do Your Job" amendment (was Re: White House ...)
Please forgive me for following up to my own posting, but I just realized how close I was to a solution: A Constitutional amendment that would call for the impeachment of the President for failing to veto any three bills that are overturned by the Supreme Court on Constitutional grounds. Call it "The Failure to Do Your Job" amendment, or the "For Violating Your Oath" amendment. Maybe include a clause that stipulates the ex-President must also return any salary earned during his or her tenure. John -- J. Deters "Don't think of Windows programs as spaghetti code. Think of them as 'Long sticky pasta objects in OLE sauce'." +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NET: mailto:jad@dsddhc.com (work) mailto:jad@pclink.com (home) | | PSTN: 1 612 375 3116 (work) 1 612 894 8507 (home) | | ICBM: 44^58'36"N by 93^16'27"W Elev. ~=290m (work) | | For my public key, send mail with the exact subject line of: | | Subject: get pgp key | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Please forgive me for following up to my own posting, but I just realized how close I was to a solution:
A Constitutional amendment that would call for the impeachment of the President for failing to veto any three bills that are overturned by the Supreme Court on Constitutional grounds.
Call it "The Failure to Do Your Job" amendment, or the "For Violating Your Oath" amendment. Maybe include a clause that stipulates the ex-President must also return any salary earned during his or her tenure.
I have a better solution: Any elected official or govenment employee found to have willfuly violated the Constitution of the United States of America should be draged to the capitol steps and promptly lynched. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM80hAo9Co1n+aLhhAQFV0wQAiMc8PrveYpYjYBRvQUAMXZi1PjpzKa6h gw3TjXNOT7IP1l56ppmUYDAD/RzkgX7qU7oV9nKWd4BCsrYM4Rt2fWlYs/EOi9eg 7FqZD1jW1zh8IUzok1foPGrwD0ZAn+xd03X+xnGliWvj2bEGlM+6/03p6qpKGwSu nCxBwDXJKQo= =TNq5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Any elected official or govenment employee found to have willfuly violated the Constitution of the United States of America should be draged to the capitol steps and promptly lynched.
Then you'd have to lynch those that did the dragging and lynching as each induhvidual has the constitutional right to a trial. Petro, Christopher C. petro@smoke.suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, snow wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Any elected official or govenment employee found to have willfuly violated the Constitution of the United States of America should be draged to the capitol steps and promptly lynched.
Then you'd have to lynch those that did the dragging and lynching as each induhvidual has the constitutional right to a trial.
An amendment that allowed lyching-without-trial would make it legal. =-=-=-=-=-= Robert Hayden rhayden@means.net IP Network Administrator (612) 230-4416 MEANS Telcom
At 06:59 PM 7/24/97 -0500, snow wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
Any elected official or govenment employee found to have willfuly violated the Constitution of the United States of America should be draged to the capitol steps and promptly lynched.
Then you'd have to lynch those that did the dragging and lynching as each induhvidual has the constitutional right to a trial.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, John Deters wrote:
A Constitutional amendment that would call for the impeachment of the President for failing to veto any three bills that are overturned by the Supreme Court on Constitutional grounds.
Whole bill? One little amendment to a *large* bill? (CDA being part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.... hmmmm..) Not a bad idea, but it suffers from the same problems we discussed about a month ago regarding members of Congress... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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