No Excuses: Americans Have Provisions In The U.S. Constitution To Impeach & Prosecute Corrupt Politicians

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing. Daniel Webster

The Constitution and its impeachment power

As we look at what it is that our said representative government has been responsible for today concerning the crimes that are being committed against the very people that they are to protect and serve, it is unfathomable.

Yet, there is good news, if the people are willing to act accordingly (Deuteronomy 4:1-6).

When perusing our founding documents, namely the Declaration of Independence, I find that ¾ of this document is what our forefathers did not tolerate when it came to the corrupt.  What an example they have left to their posterity (Hebrews 13:7).

You will find in their writings such things as…

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…

…But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Then they so eloquently laid out for us why they took such measures when stating,

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

It doesn’t stop there when it comes to equipping their posterity (future generations). Not only did they leave us an example of how to deal with tyrants in the Declaration alone, but they also gave us provisions in the U.S. Constitution as to how to lawfully do so (Proverbs 7:2).

You will find in Article II, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article I Section 3 Clause 7:

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

Conclusion

With this provision that is available to the American people, there is no excuse for what is being tolerated within the halls of government, today (Numbers 32:23).

And no, resigning is not enough.

Do not tell me that it cannot be done. It has been numerous times to a people courageous enough to bring judgment upon the heads of the guilty (Isaiah 26:9).

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. James Garfield