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> There are procedures to remove an unfit President, sure; but there's no requirement baked into the Constitution that requires those parties to act upon those
by pseudalopex 8mo ago
> There are procedures to remove an unfit President, sure; but there's no requirement baked into the Constitution that requires those parties to act upon those procedures.
This would be enforced how?
- layer8 8mo agoWell, you can’t force people to follow the constitution in the first place, if too few agree with it.
- keernan 8mo ago>>This would be enforced how Bingo. The flaw in the constitution. The Executive holds the only enforcement mechanism in government: the FBI, military and other police forces. Having majored in political science as an undergrad and then being a trial attorney for 40+ years, I would argue that my use of the word 'flaw' is probably misplaced. 'Flaw' implies it could (should) have been created differently. Alas, I am unaware of ever reading a workable way to 'fix' our constitutional 'flaw'.
- acuozzo 8mo agoOne possible solution is to intentionally introduce Ancient Rome's "Brittania Problem". Specifically, fund a distant vassal state which requires a military so enormous to maintain peace that any general in charge of said military would pose a legitimate threat to the executive back home. Enforcement could, then, simply be accomplished by Congress, et al. incentivizing said general to stage his coup. Now that I think of it... this could be one practical way to accomplish something akin to Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution".