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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (29402)	1/23/1999 7:17:00 AM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 67261

Starr could have sent in the ATF ...

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (29402)	1/23/1999 8:03:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Madison said, If we aren't careful, the President will serve at the pleasure of the Legislature. The Senate, he said. And then they went to "treason and bribery," and somebody said, that's still not quite enough, and so they went to "treason, bribery" and George Mason added, "or other high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States." And they voted on it and on Sept. 10 they sent the entire Constitution to a committee they called the Committee on Style and Arrangement, which was the committee that would draft the language in a way that everybody would understand. It would be well-crafted, from a grammatical standpoint. But that committee, which was dominated by Madison and Hamilton, dropped "against the United States." And historians will tell you that the reason they did that was because it was redundant. Because that committee had no right to change the substance of anything, and they would not have dropped it if they hadn't felt that it was redundant. And then they put in for good measure -- and we can always be grateful -- the two-thirds majority. nytimes.com Full Text: Dale Bumpers, Former Democratic Senator From Arkansas