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bucolic_frolic

(42,673 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:37 PM Jun 2018

Frum, Frum, Frum, Frum .....

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 ...




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




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 ..... (Original Post) 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

lame54

(35,138 posts)
9. I'm starting to think The Constitution...
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:24 PM
Jun 2018

Is an extremely flawed document
It is not going to get us out of this

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
3. David Frum .....How could you??????
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:41 PM
Jun 2018


Be so wise and informed as you are.

Come join the Party of Laws and Common Sense. Please.

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
5. Yes! I was trying to fit it in to Darth Vader's march theme from "Star Wars"
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:51 PM
Jun 2018

but there aren't enough Frums. Dragnet works perfectly.

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
7. Right now Frum is one of my top 5 favorite Republicans
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:04 PM
Jun 2018

That is subject to change once Trump is gone, but now he is spot on.

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