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In reply to the discussion: If your wondering why Trudeau flew to Florida to meet with Trump... [View all]melm00se
(5,081 posts)was that our Founding Fathers never considered that Americans would be so stupid to have someone like Trump elected president so they didn't really place limits on who could be president. They figured that the Electoral College, which is made up who are not "Senator(s) or Representative(s), or Person(s) holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States", would intervene if the state's did something really stupid. Unfortunately, being an elector is now just as political as any traditional role that is filled via a partisan election.
They thought that including the impeachment process as a last ditch effort to prevent a "crisis of a national revolution" was sufficient.
I doesn't appear that they consulted with the man who would be the 1st president because if they had he would have said what was in his farewell address:
His warning was and has been ignored for more than 200 years and we are reaping what we have sown.
(Most people's understanding of Washington begins and ends with "he was a general in War for Independence and the 1st president". He was an incredibly wise and perceptive individual, far more than we expose in traditional education).