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[ODDITHER]

If you want to look up the answers - go to the following link. www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/ Expulsion

If you want me to post them, I will do that too.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

How many are outright traitors to the Constitution and the republic?

Hint: Every one of them who was in office before 2000.
Probably the new ones too.

[jim_trent]

Link doesn't connect to anything. Did you forget a html or something on the end?

[StonyBurk]

Don't think about it--just DOIT

[metalboy]

How many demon-rats are bonafide psychotics?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

would like to know how many in Congress have been arrested, filed bankruptcy, signed the front of a paycheck, etc.

I think the arrest records would probably equal or be worse than the NFL's.

[m1-lightning]

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[ODDITHER]

tHANKS - FOR THE CORRECT LINK

[maestro]

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Proverbs chapter Six (6)!!

[m1-lightning]

Technically, only two Senators were expelled, Civil War diregarded, one Republican and one Democrat.

[KarlInOhio]

Interesting. One Republican was expelled and another had a vote for expulsion before there was a Republican party.

Date: 1797
Member: William Blount (R-TN)
Charge: Anti-Spanish conspiracy; treason
Result: Expelled

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Date: 1808
Member: John Smith (R-OH)
Charge: Disloyalty/Treason
Result: Not Expelled

[m1-lightning]

How would you determine the D or R for members of the Democratic-Republican party before 1820?

[Wisconsin]

William Blount was the first senator expelled. He was impeached for organizing a conspiracy to have Americans, British and Indians attack Spanish America to obtain the land rights.

Many regard Blount, a throughly despicable rogue, as the Father of our Country.

An unscrupulous land speculator, he was both a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a member of the Continental Congress. In the crucial moment when the Constitutional Convention was being split by the large state-small state question, Blount and several of his buddies left the Convention, riding pell-mell for New york and the Congress, where they thought the time was ripe to lobby through Congress a bill that ripped off the public in favor of land speculators.

Blount's absence resulted in a deadlock in his state's delegation (effectively an abstention) which allowed the compromise of a two house legislature to pass, removing what had become the sticking issue in the Convention. Had Blount been present, it is likely that the Convention would have deadlocked.

Giving his crucial role in birthing the nation, and surveying the present Congress and assuming that character breeds true, it seems indisputable that Blount, and not a noble man like Washington, was truly "Father of our Country"

[KarlInOhio]

How would you determine the D or R for members of the Democratic-Republican party before 1820?

I would either put DR for the full name, or just D because it was the direct predecesor of the current Democrat party. I would not use just R. I hate to get out the tin-foil hat, but I don't think that this could be accidental.

[jae471]

I doubt its worthy of tinfoil. Jefferson called himself and his party Republican. From his first inaugural address "We all are Republicans; we are all Federalists."

"Democrat" wasn't really used until after true parties were formed.

[KarlInOhio]

Many regard Blount, a throughly despicable rogue, as the Father of our Country. An unscrupulous land speculator...

What?
How could
it be
that an
elected official
would have
a crooked
transaction in real
estate? I am
really shocked.

[m1-lightning]

Blount, William (1749-1800) Brother of Thomas Blount; half-brother of William Blount (1767-1835); father of William Grainger Blount. Born in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C., March 26, 1749. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781, 1783; Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-83, 1786-87; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of North Carolina state senate, 1788; Governor of Southwest Territory, 1790-96; delegate to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97; member of Tennessee state senate, 1798-1800; died in office 1800. Presbyterian. Became involved in a conspiracy to turn Florida over to British control; when this plot was uncovered in 1797, was expelled from the U.S. Senate; afterwards, on July 7, 1797, he was impeached, but the Senate dropped the matter for lack of jurisdiction. Died in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., March 21, 1800. Interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn. Blount counties in Alabama and Tennessee are named for him. See also: congressional biography.

[m1-lightning]

Jefferson called himself and his party Republican.

As in Jeffersonian Republicans and thus the first opposition party in the United States, the Republicans.

[KarlInOhio]

I just remember the name "Democratic-Republican" from my history books. I didn't know that the Republican part took precidence in the name. Most lists of presidents I've seen list either D or DR for presidents such as Jefferson and Madison, although I hate the idea of the current 'Rat party claiming those great men as their own.

[Frohickey]

the correct link is http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Expulsion_vrd.htm