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Comment Of The Day But, sometimes not every day. |
I've got a meeting on the South Shore. But read
the amendment over. The intention of the framers of this amendment
was to prevent a lame duck Congress, in the event of no Presidential
candidate getting a clear majority, from electing (or impeaching)
a President. The framers wanted the new
Congress, "fresh from the people," to select the President
in such a case. In fact, they rewrote the starting date of the
new session, with this amendment, for that exact and expressed
purpose. Before this amendment, Congresses had to wait 13 months
before convening. And this is not just splitting constitutional legalities,
either. Imagine that the country pronounces a ruling party as
unacceptable in a national election and throws the majority out.
Then they proceed to impeach the popular leader of that electoral
revolution in their lame duckness? That, |