Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
I want back every fucking moment of my life that I was made to listen to them lecture on and on and on and on and on about Obama and his executive orders and “presidents aren’t kings”
I feel like my takeaways from No More Kings were… not the same as Roberts et al
(Also, hadn’t watched this in ages but George is rather Trumpy
youtu.be/wBTd2jSB2mM?...
Too much water, too much salt. If you’d have kept a couple of friendly* Brits around, they’d have let you know.
*not an era we were renowned for friendliness, I know. A bit like all the other eras.
ISTR seeing some commentary that we almost crowned our own George anyway.
The version I saw was that, interestingly, despite his ambition to lead the Revolutionary Army, he really didn't want the title, and seriously they weren't going to pick anyone else to be the head of state instead.
