• nickiwest@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    There is, but the people who wrote it didn’t foresee a world in which an entire established political party just blindly follows everything that the incapacitated person says.

    The framers of the constitution and the people who wrote its amendments were so sure that only people with integrity and good intentions would hold elected office that they didn’t give us a plan for removing shallow, greedy megalomaniacs.

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      18 hours ago

      But they also didn’t consider themselves smart enough to have thought of everything which was the whole point of the amendment system. Which was promptly discarded as soon as it became more convenient to reinterpret the letter of the constitution to suit your needs while calling yourself an originalist.