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bucolic_frolic

(53,802 posts) Mon Jun 4, 2018, 12:37 PM Jun 2018

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Quite a number of people are comparing President Trump's claim of a right to self-pardon to George III. In fact, Trump is asserting a much much greater power than George III ever imagined - a power for which Charles I lost his head and James II lost his throne ... more ...

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The Stuart monarchs asserted a "dispensing power" that permitted them to absolve individual subjects of the duty to comply with laws.

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This "dispensing power" was grievance number 6 in the famous Nineteen Propositions adopted by Parliament in 1642, leading to outright civil war.

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Frum, Frum, Frum, Frum ..... [View all] bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 OP

Courts are being packed with sycophants who dont know what the constitution says or care Eliot Rosewater Jun 2018 #1

Oh they know. They really know. unblock Jun 2018 #2

I'm starting to think The Constitution... lame54 Jun 2018 #9

All documents flawed. The Constitution will get us out, imperfectly, but in the main it will work.nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2018 #15

David Frum .....How could you?????? ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2018 #3

It's even better if... C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #4

Yes! I was trying to fit it in to Darth Vader's march theme from "Star Wars" Glorfindel Jun 2018 #5

Or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony... Qutzupalotl Jun 2018 #6

It works well with the theme song to "Jaws" as well. kmla Jun 2018 #8

Or the Tums commercial lame54 Jun 2018 #10

Monty Python's "Spam, spam, spam, spam" bigbrother05 Jun 2018 #13

Warped minds think alike. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2018 #16

Spam jayschool2013 Jun 2018 #14

Get Smart sab390 Jun 2018 #18

Right now Frum is one of my top 5 favorite Republicans redstateblues Jun 2018 #7

This Deserves A +1 Me. Jun 2018 #11

For you history buffs bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #12

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!! debsy Jun 2018 #17