[Common Tator]

We are a nation of the people, by the people and for the people.

Because the people supported it, Lincoln could get away with suspending habeas corpus.

Because the people opposed it, Nixon could not get away with the far less serious crime of breaking and entering.

What most people fail to understand is that words on paper in a document called the Constitution have never had any finite meaning.

Thus if the people support going to war in Iraq it does not matter what authority or lack of authority exists. As long as the people support it, Bush has all the authority he needs. When the people no longer support a president, he could follow every rule perfectly, but if enough of the public were against him, he would still be impeached and convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Of the people, by the people, and for the people.. says it all

[TexConfederate1861]

Are you a DEMORAT? Of COURSE the Constitution had "finite" meaning......JEEEZ!

[stainlessbanner]

Because the people supported it, Lincoln could get away with suspending habeas corpus.

I missed the Union vote on suspending the Habeas Corpus - what was the date?

[snopercod]

...that words on paper in a document called the Constitution have never had any finite meaning.

You make a persuasive argument for mob rule, but those sacred "words on paper" are - dare I say it? - seared into the minds of a dwindling few of us, and may prompt us into action someday.