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To: bruiser98 who wrote (123653)	11/1/2016 12:41:39 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By Pogeu Mahone Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217765

The US Constitution has proved to be a remarkably well-reasoned basis for operating a government for more than 200 years. As you know the process for changing the Constitution is deliberately cumbersome, takes a number of years to carry out and requires a difficult to obtain level of approval. - en.wikipedia.org Prosecutors in every jurisdiction in America effectively have the power to pardon anyone for breaking any and all laws, even if these crimes have not yet been discovered. Normally this pardon is given in return for testimony leading to another prosecution. The idea that the President should not have the power afforded to every small town, county, state and federal prosecutor and Governor is laughable. This is why impeachment is the only unpardonable offense, and impeachment and conviction doesn't require the actual violation of any law. It's a political process which merely requires the office holder to be found to have committed the nebulous and undefined "high crimes and misdemeanors". The only Constitutional Amendment which has been repealed was the wholly frivolous 18th Amendment passed in 1917 which prohibited the manufacturing or sale of ethanol in the United States. During the second Bush administration Congress passed an equally imbecilic law which made the process of butane and other gas solvent extraction a felony. While these pinheads were focused on preventing the extraction of THC from marijuana, this law stupidly made felons of every pharmaceutical and chemical firm as well as many college labs. This idiotic attempt by Congress to make routine organic chemistry a Felony amply demonstrates why the ability to pardon people is an essential part of our system of government.