But those looking to the nation’s Founders, or the Constitution they framed, for answers to such a crisis will come up empty-handed. There is nothing in the Constitution about what to do if a president refuses to step down when his term expires, according to three historians and a constitutional law professor.
“No, the framers did not envisage a president refusing to step down or discuss what should be done in such a situation,” Princeton historian Sean Wilentz said. “There’s obviously nothing in the Constitution about it.”“This is a contingency that no one would have actively contemplated until this fall,” said historian Jack Rakove, a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Recently, Engel asked the post-doctoral fellows and undergraduates affiliated with the center — whose areas of study range from George Washington to Trump — to drop everything they were doing and search for any historical clues or parallels.The Constitution says a president’s term expires after four years. That’s it. Congress set Washington’s first term as officially beginning on March 4, 1789. March 4 became the de facto inauguration date until the 12th Amendment made it official in 1804.
The navy seals did.
Holy hell people don’t know history.
The founders also didn't prepare for the case that a political party would confirm a mentally questionable person who took the party under suppression
Nope. They didn’t prepare to have a clown in the White House either.
It ain’t over til it’s over.
Isn’t that why they put the second amendment in there?
They didn’t prepare for a mentally unstable President who lives in an alternate reality where he’s unable to accept defeat.
First off, the election certification ain’t over (December 14) Until then, it stays undecided (FACT) Second, I’m sure the founding fathers didn’t see the digitalization of the voting system happen WP = trash
The founders didn't set up for Wide Spread FRAUD
Not at the founding but laws changed due to it being tested after that.
I believe the founders would have challenged the President who refused to leave to a duel, that would be it.
That's why we now have Navy Seals for the Trump Extraction. TrumpConcede
That's Nonsense - the alternative is to have an imperial system were the ruler never steps down and rules for life which makes no sense as the 'so called Founders' ( it's not their country to have founded as it existed before them!) fought the British monarchy who ruled for life.
The founders did prepare “LEGAL votes decide who is President, NOT the media. “
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IF PRES. TRUMP STEPS DOWN THEN HE IS ACCEPTING AND AGREEING WITH CORRUPTION.LOOKS LIKE THAT IS WHY JOE DID NOT HIT THE POLITICAL TRAIL,HE KNEW IT WAS IN THE 'BAG'.PAY ATTENTION TO THE EVIDENCE BEING FOUND.
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