Oh Say Nation Marilynn Stark

Concerning the Recent Impeachment of President Trump (Ep. 1)







This, the first episode of Oh Say Nation by Marilynn Stark, will introduce some of the particulars of the impeachment of President Donald Trump and much of the democratic tenets of wisdom that could guide us people and the governing process through the Constitutional crisis created by that impeachment.







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Concerning the Recent Impeachment of President Trump: Part Two (Ep. 2)











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     It was shown in the first episode of Oh Say Nation that the greatest fear of Alexander Hamilton regarding the question of the longevity of the Constitution, its very durability across great time, was expressed in Federalist No. 65.  In review, Hamilton knew that in the power of impeachment of the president of the United States would lie a certain danger to the longevity of the Constitution -- that of a partisan impeachment. The Framers had chosen the Senate for the trial phase of any impeachment due to its numerary powers, meaning that it possessed an adequate number of representatives to call in a likely more fair assessment of sensibilities in the case before them not so much necessarily in regard to party line.  In a case, on the other hand, if the power of partisan sentiments might one day nullify the numerary powers of the Senate, or, for that matter, of the House of Representatives, meaning work against the innate usefulness of the number of members of either house, Hamilton states:







". . . and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”







     Yet, as was demonstrated also, the very subjects of the jurisdiction in any consideration of impeachments will necessarily also themselves be political, or as Hamilton puts it:







" They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”







     It seems that the structure of the Constitution in the separation of powers must rely on withstanding the forces of political sentiments that test its very utility unto a function that can at once be preserving of itself while still answering adequately and adeptly the concerns of political weight in matters that may overwhelm the elected officials as they govern.  The question then naturally arises that if a partisan vote in the House of Representatives to impeach a president -- in this historical case President Trump -- is to be contemplated in the abstract briefly, what is the outstanding nature of this event?  Yes, our most venerated Framer, Hamilton, stated clearly that a partisan impeachment by its own nature stands alone as the most dangerous tool of destruction of the power invested in the executive branch since it could lead to an innocent president being impeached along sheer party lines; such a result is a danger to the sanctity of the office of the president thenceforth due to its having set a legal precedent.  The idea of an innocent president being ousted wrongly by the Congress through impeachment could diminish the very place of the sovereignty of the people in our democracy. First, this partisan vote by the House to impeach Trump could by the sheer weight of its own precedent legally set up a party-run parliamentary system of government that would have the power on a regular basis to override the vote of the people. 







     The Founders chose the people themselves to elect the president of this country, and this vote is distinctive since it unifies the people.  Furthermore, it unifies the people on a vital choice since the president holds a unitary power due to the need for there to be a leader whose decision-making ability must be answerable at times instantaneously in cases of widespread disaster or military necessity, for instance.  To involve the entirety of the nation's people in selecting their own president keeps the spirit of democracy intact and thriving even as their vote is secondarily sent through the kind of prism of the Electoral Coll...

In this third episode of 'Oh Say Nation' the crises facing our nation are cited.



How the Trump administration is working to guide America is crucial, and the movement to overthrow the democracy and replace our form of government with socialism is cited.  How to understand what the people can do to preserve our nation and its form of government is discussed.  The idea of how a faction can lead to an overthrow is stressed.  To vote Trump into a second term is advised as urgent for all Americans, hoping to see Democratic Party voters cross the line and vote Republican.

Unified We Stand

               Marilynn Stark    July 5, 2020         

     Welcome to another episode of my podcast, “Oh Say Nation.”  This is Marilynn Stark.  It is now early July 5, 2020 as I gather up my thoughts for our nation after having observed President Trump lead in the Independence Day celebrations. 



     In the spirit of America’s Independence Day, July 4th, it gives me special moment to have the honor to address the larger day before us in this podcast.  Indeed, it is our freedom we wish to preserve as we do observe the tense moments of civic unrest that have caught on in several of our nation’s cities.  These riots seem to be some counterpart to some political far-left movement here in America whose overall message seems to be that there are those who want to take our freedom into their own revolting hands somehow by ending democracy and substituting it with socialism.  Yet, socialism would be a digression from humanity since socialism promotes poverty – widespread poverty. It is famously rumored that certain anti-philanthropic bad actors of immense wealth are funding some of the atrocious rioting that is occurring here in America, much to our demeaned and dangerously compromised status since we are more a peaceful nation.



To deem this proposed new governmental form ‘democratic socialism’ as an introductory ploy is euphemizing what is more likely to turn into tyranny as the wealth of Americans would be so meanly confiscated and re-distributed, or countermanded,  into governmental hands and into those hands of a ruling few.  Indeed, if these rioters, these looters and vandals even lack sincerity of purpose since they are just paid to commit mayhem, then this is sheer brute mentality that grips us.   Have these unruly ones, these few rioters now entered the political stage as mere, thoughtless and paid mercenaries? Do they harbor half-baked, poorly thought out ideals such that they are just bought commodities on a market to revolutionize mankind into a quixotic global system of governing and economics?  Do they even know the greater possible consequences of their employ to deface our places and commit gross acts of terroristic violence at all?  In fact, if they are being paid by an upper echelon of wealthy people, then how would anyone suppose that these wealthy ones, these sophistic talkers, would ever propose to turn kind and benevolent unto you or me after the mayhem they had fomented?  That they would wish the people widely unto good provisions and fairness and equality with a guaranteed continuation of our current way of life and dignity as citizens would be counter-thematic to their methods.  Would it not be most probable that their unenlightened postures towards us, towards mankind together, to so treat us not for our intellects and political savvy, but for our innocent vulnerability to violence – would it not be most probable that these unenlightened, grabby materialists would be inundated by still more greed, more corruption and more mayhem towards some long-ended settlement with us citizens?  Would such a settlement bar us from raising a voice to really be heard at all?  Would such oppression rule the people as according to their tyrannical terms -- terms that would be consonant only with their true ideals of accomplishment to so destroy a perfectly beautiful nation -