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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are two parts to the Impeachment process: Impeachment, which takes place in the House and Conviction, which takes place in the Senate. Both Houses of Congress get to weigh in, and Clinton's Conviction vote was a party-line affair where he narrowly avoided getting ousted (but absolutely should have).
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "I think that the 17th amendment is a significant factor in the corruption of the Senate."

    100% agree.
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  • Posted by Solver 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Right. The illiberal intellectuals are activity using their minds to figure out how to regress the world back to a more primitive less rational tribal state. Cultural marxism is just one of their spawn.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Somehow I think that bad behavior today would mean adherence to conservative thinking as opposed to liberal thinking
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Clinton should have been impeached for actually thinking that Monica Lewinsky would actually keep her sex with the president secret. Anyone with that little judgment should NOT be president. As it was, within an hour Monica had told a lot of her friends already what happened.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But with a liberal mind, we are nothing too. Minds can move us backwards too, as they did during the Obama years.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Capitalization of nouns (as is still done in German) was a common style in English (and in Danish, Swedish and Dutch) at that time. In the original Constitution all nouns begin with capital letters.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    None of these removals have happened in recent times. That indicates to me that the behavior of the con-gress (who is supposed to defend the constitution from bad behavior of judges) has deteriorated due to corruption and the people no longer have anyone to expose such behavior. Members of con-gress don't dare expose such behavior in fear of being exposed themselves in retaliation.
    I think that the 17th amendment is a significant factor in the corruption of the Senate.
    Repeal of a few significant laws and amendments passed or ratified in 1913 would scale back considerably the corruption and expansion of statist federal government. Without those laws and constitutional amendments being passed America would be completely different and, imo, Americans would be much more free today.
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  • Posted by Riftsrunner 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a civil lawsuit by Paula Jones (who was claiming Clinton sexual assaulted her while Governor of Arkansas). There were four articles of impeachment, but only those two passed the House of Representatives. In the United State, unlike other Parliamentary systems, impeachment is akin to an indictment of charges and the Senate tries the impeached individual. So while impeached, both Presidents weren't convicted by the Senate
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is going to be interesting. From my perspective, "bad behavior" means I've killed someone, or stolen something, or cheated on my wife, or done something else that is either morally or legally wrong.

    From the lib perspective, just being a conservative is bad behavior.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wonder what their 'bad Behaviour' was. Did you notice Behaviour is capitalized in the Constitution?
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 7 months ago
    Than you all for your comments. it would seem Impeachment doesn't mean a lot since only twice has a President been impeached. President Johnson who fired the Secretary of State and Bill Clinton who did who knows what. But they both finished their terms so nothing was gained obviously. Amazing Process.
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  • Posted by Solver 7 years, 7 months ago
    Good behavior used to mean honesty, civility, being responsible for one’s own actions and respecting individual rights. Sadly, good behavior in these darker days means not wearing the wrong Halloween costume.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 7 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    According to Wikipidia:
    Article III, Section I
    Tenure:
    The Constitution provides that judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." The term "good behavior" is interpreted to mean that judges may serve for the remainder of their lives, although they may resign or retire voluntarily. A judge may also be removed by impeachment and conviction by congressional vote (hence the term good behavior); this has occurred fourteen times. Three other judges, Mark W. Delahay,[5] George W. English,[6] and Samuel B. Kent,[7] chose to resign rather than go through the impeachment process.
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  • Posted by DeangalvinFL 7 years, 7 months ago
    Forgive my laziness.
    Do you have the actual text that you are referring to?
    I know, I know. I should go look it up myself.
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 7 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, it's not called a system of checks and balances for nothing you know. We ran into this with the Gore/Bush "square-off" in Florida a year before 9/11.
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  • Posted by EgoPriest 7 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not concretely, but in a free country supporting only rational behavior, it does so in principle permitting only such behavior as does not threaten the property or persons of any other, and on the moral premise that all evasion is malicious, but only punished if manifested in action (including threats to person or property).

    So I would say the principles from which our various branches and functions of government proceed are what define good behavior, or rather the philosophers and legal scholars who preceeded the judges and politicians (along with any of the latter who qualify).

    Without your mind, you are nothing. And without the minds to move us forward, we as a people are nothing.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 7 months ago
    Wasn't it Jefferson that stopped a Supreme court judge's pay check?
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