tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30316379.post3406561721873861005..comments2023-08-26T08:26:03.057-07:00Comments on Creating Orwellian World-view by Machiavellianism a blog by Alaphiah: Is It Alive?Alaphiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12634611245023890509noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30316379.post-72432793148862974112007-08-01T17:39:00.000-07:002007-08-01T17:39:00.000-07:00Hey MD,I'm not sure what's wrong. Sounds like a pr...Hey MD,<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure what's wrong. Sounds like a problem with this website, maybe. You may have to start a new Google account and see what happens. The word verification sometimes takes a couple of tries when I go to post here so I suspect it could be a problem with this website.Ken Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14140800798260038179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30316379.post-85571994377313390972007-07-31T21:52:00.000-07:002007-07-31T21:52:00.000-07:00RC:Where have you been hiding? I have been trying ...RC:<BR/><BR/>Where have you been hiding? I have been trying to post again to your blog under the my new Moniker, Bydlo. Somehow, the word validator doesn't work when I post. It don't work here either.<BR/><BR/>MDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30316379.post-17499196309315845002007-07-31T16:31:00.000-07:002007-07-31T16:31:00.000-07:00Looks like Specter and the ACLU have something in ...Looks like Specter and the ACLU have something in common.They hide behind the Constitution while doing their best to bring this country down.Ken Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14140800798260038179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30316379.post-18359430082489868642007-07-31T06:15:00.000-07:002007-07-31T06:15:00.000-07:00The best hope of getting rid of Specter is for the...The best hope of getting rid of Specter is for the people of Pa. to find someone who can beat him in the next Primary! Recall is a futile exercise! Here is why:<BR/><BR/>The United States Constitution expressly establishes the exclusive qualifications for congressional office, sets the specific length of terms for Members of the House and for Senators, and places the authority within each House of Congress to judge the elections and qualifications of, and to discipline and remove, its own Members. <B>These provisions of the United States Constitution, with respect to federal officials, have supremacy over State laws and provisions, and State laws in conflict with such constitutional provisions have been found by the courts in the past to be invalid.</B> Although the language of some State recall laws might be broad enough to include Members of Congress, or might even explicitly include such federal officers, such statutes would not appear to be effective in overriding the provisions of the United States Constitution with regard to terms of office, elections and removal of Members.<BR/><BR/><BR/>As to removal by recall, <B>the United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States.</B> The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the States for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the Framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative from the United States Congress exists under the Constitution.<B> Although the Supreme Court has not needed to directly address the subject of recall of Members of Congress, other Supreme Court decisions, as well as the weight of other judicial and administrative decisions, rulings and opinions, indicate that the right to remove a Member of Congress before the expiration of his or her constitutionally established term of office is one which resides exclusively in each House of Congress as established in the expulsion clause of the United States Constitution.</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com