[Peace-discuss] John W.'s Founding Fathers

[John W.]

At 11:42 PM 3/31/2008, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

>Just accident. It was sent to me quite independently of the discussion 
>between John and me.

'Twas the perfect cartoon to accompany the discussion, at any rate.  :-)

In a more serious vein, I wish they had offered a course in law school on 
the history of our Constitution - on how and why our Founding Fathers came 
to the conclusions and compromises they did.  I know there are books on the 
subject, but I haven't read any of 'em.

For example, I would have had a tendency to impose much harsher penalties 
than mere impeachment on a treasonous Chief Executive like 
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice.  I'm sure that was debated back in 1787 or 
whenever it was, and I'd love to know why the relatively mild sanction of 
impeachment was agreed upon.  I suppose because they were afraid that 
there'd be endless political witch hunts all the time, as a way of 
eliminating one's political enemies.



>Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>
>>This is GREAT! Pardon my ignorance, but is that really the caption, or 
>>was it inserted to fit the discussion, or was it what generated the 
>>discussion to begin with?
>>  --Jenifer
>>
>>
>>
>>*/"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>/* wrote: