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HeartachesNhangovers

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2. Perhaps you should define constitutional crisis,

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:13 AM

Jun 2017

because DUers seem to have a range of interpretations. Some members seem to think that having both the administration and Congress controlled by Republicans constitutes a constitutional crisis. My own interpretation would be that one or more of the three branches is clearly violating a provision of the Constitution and the other branches are declining to use their authority to bring them back in line.

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how deep are we into a constitutional crisis? [View all] kentuck Jun 2017 OP

On a scale of one to ten, twelve or thirteen. n/t rzemanfl Jun 2017 #1

Perhaps you should define constitutional crisis, HeartachesNhangovers Jun 2017 #2