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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 ...
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The Stuart monarchs asserted a "dispensing power" that permitted them to absolve individual subjects of the duty to comply with laws.
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This "dispensing power" was grievance number 6 in the famous Nineteen Propositions adopted by Parliament in 1642, leading to outright civil war.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)And that's exactly why they're putting sycophants in place.
lame54
(35,138 posts)Is an extremely flawed document
It is not going to get us out of this
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Be so wise and informed as you are.
Come join the Party of Laws and Common Sense. Please.
C_U_L8R
(44,893 posts)you say Frum, Frum, Frum, Frum to the tune of Dragnet
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)but there aren't enough Frums. Dragnet works perfectly.
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)kmla
(4,047 posts)lame54
(35,138 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)It, the open and theme, would be right for him. He seems to have gotten smart. Maybe?
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)That is subject to change once Trump is gone, but now he is spot on.
Me.
(35,454 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,673 posts)this was the time of the Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Propositions
debsy
(527 posts)...figuratively speaking, of course!