[Arkinsaw]

I remember when lots of us wanted Reagan to run for a third term. We considered asking for a constitutional amendment to allow it. Had we pressed for a vote on extending the rights of Americans to vote for who they chose for a third term or fourth term, would the US military have been right to have deposed Reagan in a coup?

1) Not all of us wanted that. 2) Reagan did not ask for that. 3) Reagan did not disobey a judicial order on it. 4) Reagan did not demand that the army do it anyway. 5) Reagan did not fire the Defense Secretary when he refused to do it anyway. 6) He did not do all this despite no support from his own party or the Congress as a whole. 7) He didn't do it in obvious collusion with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

If Reagan had done all that to try to stay in power...then yes...someone with arms would have had to have stepped in.

[guns_for_liberty]

“If Reagan had done all that to try to stay in power...then yes...someone with arms would have had to have stepped in.”

No way. We would have impeached him and removed him legally. Honduras had that option as well, and might have gone that route if the military had not intervened.