Jolly Platypus@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTrump’s Call to Annex Canada as a State Should Have Invoked the 25th Amendmentwww.esquire.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down16cross-posted to: trump_watch@lemm.ee
arrow-up1650arrow-down1external-linkTrump’s Call to Annex Canada as a State Should Have Invoked the 25th Amendmentwww.esquire.comJolly Platypus@lemm.ee to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square83fedilinkcross-posted to: trump_watch@lemm.ee
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 days agoThe founders didn’t consider it at all, the 25th wasn’t added until 1967. Pre-Nixon even.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoThe 25th was put in to prevent the situation that occurred with Woodrow Wilson, who had a stroke and couldn’t govern but who was not removed from office. The remedies for grossly unfit traitors were meant to be impeachment, or revolution.
The founders didn’t consider it at all, the 25th wasn’t added until 1967. Pre-Nixon even.
The 25th was put in to prevent the situation that occurred with Woodrow Wilson, who had a stroke and couldn’t govern but who was not removed from office.
The remedies for grossly unfit traitors were meant to be impeachment, or revolution.