Impeachment - Conversation with David Priess and Bruce Carlson
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:35.6 | There's many things you can say about impeachment it's easy |
| 0:41.5 | in some ways It's difficult in others. It's dangerous to do. It turns the attention on the accusers or it increases scrutiny of the president. |
| 0:58.0 | The very last time it was done, a speaker of the house had to step down, actually his replacement had to step down too, and the |
| 1:06.3 | President remained in office. |
| 1:09.1 | Luther Martin was a prominent lawyer in Maryland, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. |
| 1:19.0 | He leaves early because he really doesn't like the constitutional plan and particularly |
| 1:25.8 | he doesn't like the powers assigned to the president of the United States. |
| 1:31.2 | He speaks to the Maryland Constitutional Convention and suggests strongly that they do not approve the Convention. |
| 1:38.5 | Among his many points, one of the things Luther Martin says is look at this impeachment power. |
| 1:50.6 | So you've got the House has to accuse the president, impeach the president, make a charge, and then it's up to the Senate to be the trial to decide to convict or not convict. |
| 2:07.0 | So you've got this House of Representatives that has to put its neck out there and suffer the consequences of say denial of |
| 2:17.2 | patronage which even back then 1787 is something that Luther Martin's thinking about. You're going to give |
| 2:24.6 | this executive day-to-day power. He's going to have the ability to help out |
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