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Title: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: dutch508 on February 02, 2017, 02:02:40 PM
 :rotf:


 ... and that's where I stopped reading.


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Star Member Mr. Ected (2,146 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028584713

What could the Founding Fathers have done differently to avoid a President Trump?

I'm hardly a constitutional scholar, but checks and balances in a 2-party system only function properly when each of the parties control at least one branch of the government.

Trump has been unleashed on us, and with overt partisans from his party taking the lead at the legislative and judicial levels, the opportunity for mischief is omnipresent. The Democrats would self-police in such an instance. The Republicans, obviously, will not. Party before nation, 100 times out of 100. They've made a mockery of the Constitution and our Republic is threatened as it has never been before.

they didn't care when teh [D]s had all three.

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DanTex (16,722 posts)
6. Election by popular vote. In other words, democracy.

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Star Member rickford66 (1,461 posts)
7. Create a fourth branch of government for the Justice Dept

 :lol:
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: DLR Pyro on February 02, 2017, 02:16:59 PM
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DanTex (16,722 posts)
6. Election by popular vote. In other words, democracy mob rule.

FIFY, DUmmy
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: SVPete on February 02, 2017, 02:57:51 PM
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Star Member Mr. Ected (2,146 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028584713

What could the Founding Fathers have done differently to avoid a President Trump?

I'm hardly a constitutional scholar, but checks and balances in a 2-party system only function properly when each of the parties control at least one branch of the government.

Was "Mr. Ected" pitching this pap in 2009-20010?
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: FaC on February 02, 2017, 03:03:15 PM
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Star Member Mr. Ected (2,146 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028584713

What could the Founding Fathers have done differently to avoid a President Trump?

I'm hardly a constitutional scholar, but checks and balances in a 2-party system only function properly when each of the parties control at least one branch of the government.

Trump has been unleashed on us, and with overt partisans from his party taking the lead at the legislative and judicial levels, the opportunity for mischief is omnipresent. The Democrats would self-police in such an instance. The Republicans, obviously, will not. Party before nation, 100 times out of 100. They've made a mockery of the Constitution and our Republic is threatened as it has never been before.

How much "self-policing" were you idiots doing when Obamacare was rammed thru?

I cannot tell a lie - when I read Mr. Ected my mind reports back "Mr. Ed". Mr. Ed would be the smarter of the two...
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: Carl on February 02, 2017, 03:06:31 PM
Interesting DUmp screen name.  :whistling:
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 02, 2017, 03:50:08 PM
How much "self-policing" were you idiots doing when Obamacare was rammed thru?

I cannot tell a lie - when I read Mr. Ected my mind reports back "Mr. Ed". Mr. Ed would be the smarter of the two...

Hell, the ass end of Mr. Ed would be smarter than this primitive.
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: jukin on February 02, 2017, 04:32:30 PM
Well I'm not a Constitutional scholar or attorney but my Schadenboner is. J. Schadenboner Esq. just got a law degree specializing in Constitutional law from no less than Harvard. Within the last 48 hours has also passed the bar in 27 states. J. Schadenboner Esq. says that everything that DUchebag just said is bullshit.
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: freedumb2003b on February 02, 2017, 04:32:39 PM
To answer the DUmmy, the same thing that could have prevented that traitorous dictator socialist LBJ.
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: franksolich on February 02, 2017, 04:49:33 PM
Was "Mr. Ected" pitching this pap in 2009-2010?

That time, and some other times too, in your and my lifetimes.

I especially remember 1965-1967 after the Goldwater loss of 1964; 1975-1979 after Watergate, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius during the mid-term elections of 1974 in which the hippies ousted the old white man Establishment, and Carter's narrow victory over Ford in 1976; 1993-1995 the first two years of the Clinton presidency; and 2009-2011 the first two years of the Obozo regime.

All times during which the Democrats had not only the White House, but dominated both Houses of Congress with near veto-proof (or better) majorities, and controlled the Supreme Court.

There's much to be said for "balance of power," and I'm all for it, but what can I, a Republican, do about it when members of the other party cripple their own party, making it unpalatable to the majority of voters?  There's no point in "equalizing" things by sharing power with an entity deemed by most voters as being too extreme, too fringe, too kooky.
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: I_B_Perky on February 02, 2017, 05:14:24 PM
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Star Member Mr. Ected (2,146 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028584713

What could the Founding Fathers have done differently to avoid a President Trump?

I'm hardly a constitutional scholar...

<blah blah blah>

What you are is stupid. From your head to your toes, you are stupid. And a dummie.  That is one sorry way to go thru life.   :loser2:
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on February 02, 2017, 06:54:35 PM
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Trump has been unleashed on us

You're welcome. fvckface.   :bird:


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The Democrats would self-police in such an instance. The Republicans, obviously, will not. Party before nation, 100 times out of 100. They've made a mockery of the Constitution and our Republic is threatened as it has never been before.

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DanTex (16,722 posts)
6. Election by popular vote. In other words, democracy.

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jwdrp.gif)

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Star Member rickford66 (1,461 posts)
7. Create a fourth branch of government for the Justice Dept

Gestapo?   :thatsright:

How is that weaponizing of the Executive working out for you, retard?
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on February 02, 2017, 09:03:56 PM
Well, they probably could have realized that things would solidify into an oligarchic two party system, and that the Legislative Branch and Presidency would both end up in the hands of ancient SOBs who would just kept aggregating power to themselves until they eventually die of natural causes, and put in lifetime term limits for the House, Senate, and Presidency when they set the whole thing up, so that the only way to break the cycle would be to have a wild card like the The Mule in Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy raised up by the people who were sick of it.
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: Big Dog on February 02, 2017, 11:26:39 PM
Well I'm not a Constitutional scholar or attorney but my Schadenboner is. J. Schadenboner Esq. just got a law degree specializing in Constitutional law from no less than Harvard. Within the last 48 hours has also passed the bar in 27 states. J. Schadenboner Esq. says that everything that DUchebag just said is bullshit.

 :lol:
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: Adam Wood on February 03, 2017, 02:07:50 AM
Well I'm not a Constitutional scholar or attorney but my Schadenboner is. J. Schadenboner Esq. just got a law degree specializing in Constitutional law from no less than Harvard. Within the last 48 hours has also passed the bar in 27 states. J. Schadenboner Esq. says that everything that DUchebag just said is bullshit.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bftQ4xxFc[/youtube]
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: diesel driver on February 03, 2017, 04:54:58 AM
Well, they probably could have realized that things would solidify into an oligarchic two party system, and that the Legislative Branch and Presidency would both end up in the hands of ancient SOBs who would just kept aggregating power to themselves until they eventually die of natural causes, and put in lifetime term limits for the House, Senate, and Presidency when they set the whole thing up, so that the only way to break the cycle would be to have a wild card like the The Mule in Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy raised up by the people who were sick of it.

What the DUmmies don't realize is when they took the power to elect Senators away from the State legislators, our (speaking DUmmiese) "slow decent into Hell" began...

Now, the want to take the power to elect the President away from the EC.  Dummies will never learn. 
Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: Karin on February 03, 2017, 09:08:01 AM
Here's these DUmmies' suggestions for the Founding Fathers:

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Response to Mr. Ected (Original post)
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 10:18 PM
 uponit7771 (39,654 posts)
26. ARREST COMEY AND BLOW UP RUSSIA !!!

 :lmao:

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Response to Mr. Ected (Original post)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 12:03 AM
Glamrock (1,430 posts)
32. LEGISLATE NEWS BE FACTUAL!

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Response to Mr. Ected (Original post)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 02:24 AM
Quixote1818 (19,206 posts)
35. ...Requiring release of taxes but they didn't have income taxes back then I don't think.

Title: Re: I'm hardly a constitutional scholar,...
Post by: SVPete on February 03, 2017, 10:22:46 AM
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Response to Mr. Ected (Original post)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 02:24 AM
Quixote1818 (19,206 posts)
35. ...Requiring release of taxes but they didn't have income taxes back then I don't think.

 :banghead: :thatsright: Well, those last three words are true. Beyond that,  :thatsright: :thatsright: :thatsright: :thatsright: :thatsright: !!! :banghead: