Posted on 05/17/2010 12:13:39 PM PDT by Stoutcat
It’s a process normally found in Parliamentary governments such as England, Canada or Australia. But given the actions of the Obama administration over the past year and a half (as well as some of the decisions made in previous administrations), one could make a good argument that it’s time we amend our Constitution to add a Recall provision or ”Vote of No Confidence.”
Sure, our democracy has the rules of impeachment. But, as we’ve seen in the not-too-distant past, a sitting President can take sexual liberties with a female intern young enough to be his daughter, lie about it to the American public, commit perjury about it, and still walk away clinging to his Presidency simply by smiling and winking at the cameras as he says, “Ah did not have sexual relations with that woman…”
Our sitting President surrounds himself with radicals - including some who are self-avowed communists – for the sole purpose of “fundamentally changing America.”
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‘Ware the parliamentary rule in your hand, because as the world turns, sooner or later, it will be in your opponents hand.
First we need to have a personal privacy amendment added to protect from all levels of gov’t intrusion.
I think the 21st amendment is important. It was a better idea to write the 21st than to simply erase the 18th.
The constitution written as it is points out the mistakes made by changing it. Those lessons are lost if we strike things off of it.
Whatever this a-hole in the white hut decides to do to this country MUST BE REMEMBERED. We mustn’t strike anything off. Write into the documents involved that his mistakes will be remembered for all time.
Don’t hold your breath waiting.
I would like to see a federal law passed that said a child is only an american citizen if both his parents are here legally, especially when they automatically get citizenship in another country due to parents not being american.
The issue with a “no confidence vote” is that the fallen government calls an election immediately - it must, in order to regain a public mandate - which puts elections in parliamentary countries all over the calendar. In Canada, we’ve had election in winter, spring, summer, and fall. In the US, however, the Founding Fathers put in place a fixed date for elections - the first Tuesday in November, for example - to provide constancy. Obviously there’s an incompatability of systems there.
So it probably wouldn’t be possible to recall a whole Administration - and probably not even desirable - but individual Congresspersons, sure.
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