• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I told everyone for months that sec 5 clearly says ONLY Congress can remove him. I wish I had bookmarked everyone that old me I was a bot or Russian that doesn’t know what they are talking about.

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      9 months ago

      Please point out the word “only” in Section 5 to me. I must be blind: “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

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        9 months ago

        “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

        It’s right there The Congress shall have the power to enforce

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          9 months ago

          shall does not mean only. it means that they do have the power, but not that they and they alone have the power

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          9 months ago

          Please provide references demonstrating that the founding fathers defined “shall” to include an implicit inclusion of “only”, “exclusively”, or any similar verbiage.

          I’ll wait.