Let’s not be misled by the president’s lawyers. We must search for the truth. Research. Read. Open our minds. Even an umbrella doesn’t work if it is closed. If we value our democracy, we must fight to keep it.
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy.” Our country’s beginnings were influenced by enlightened men and women. They envisioned the fallibility of a government elected by the people and put safeguards in place. One safeguard is impeachment. The Federalist Papers were written to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The authors intended to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. Section 65 illuminates the founder’s intention concerning impeachment.
In the second paragraph of Section 65, there is a clear statement about the subject’s misconduct. “The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
— Barbara Ann Gazaway
Anchorage
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