October 9, 2017
Constitutional sovereignty: Have we already lost it?
'Special counsel' removes power from the people
By Alan Keyes
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly concerned with the possibility that President Trump "could try to pardon people in his circle even before prosecutors charge anyone with a crime."
In previous columns, I anticipated the fact that the pardoning power would likely pose a challenge to the presently haphazard and constitutionally questionable approach Congress is tolerating when it comes to dealing with "offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the abuse or violation of a public trust" (Federalist No. 65). Especially when they involve the conduct of officials at the highest level of the U.S. government, accusations respecting such offenses necessarily warrant a "national inquest," which, as Hamilton observes, will inevitably give rise to political machinations:
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