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One way to conduct a coup is to control who can run for elected office. Examples of this abound in autocracies and police states, with the most recent being China’s coup in Hong Kong. America’s progressive left is attempting the same in this country, by targeting popular Republicans to make them ineligible for election.

Let’s start with the law and its origins. As a rule, the Constitution prevents Congress from prohibiting a person who meets the basic requirements of Article I § 2 (age, citizenship, residency) from competing in a federal election or being seated in government should they win. The sole exception, established after the Civil War in the 14th Amendment, § 3, is for those people who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” our nation.

The background to this is colorful. In British-American legal history, this issue arose under King George III in the 1760s. To simplify a complex story: John Wilkes, an immensely popular firebrand, was a vocal critic of King George. The King conspired with Parliament to ensure that Wilkes, even if elected, would not be seated in the House of Commons. In 1768, the House of Commons went so far as to pass a law preventing Wilkes from even standing for election.

235152_5_.jpgWilkes was a consequential figure in our history and a favored household name among our Founders. Because they were familiar with his travails, Wilkes’s actions and the actions King George and Parliament took against him gave rise to two clauses in the U.S. Constitution and two clauses in the Bill of Rights.

As to the latter, when our Founders drafted the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of the press and the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of general warrants owed much to Wilkes. In the body of the Constitution, the protection given representatives for speech on the floor of Congress owes much to Wilkes. And lastly, the fact that Congress cannot normally control who can run for election and then be seated in Congress owes almost entirely to John Wilkes.

 

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  • The coup occurred last November!!!!!!!!!!

  • The Coup was seating the Unconstitutionaly electedLying  P.O.S. COMPROMISED GRIFTING  ASS HOLE usurping the office. R.I.C.O. and Subsequent firing squad for this Schiff!!!!

    WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT!!!! 

  • They already accomplished the coup, and the scotus cowards are complicit.

  • We MUST win this upcoming election or our nation is gone.  Please, everyone - get out and help make sure that there are no cheating, be a poll watcher if you can.  We must do away with mail-in ballots and go back to voting in person! 

  • The fate of America solely rest on the out come of this year's election.  The one way to stop the democrat's plan to take control of America and make it a socialist country is to get out and vote for the principles that this country was founded on.  You can be sure that the democrats will not stop at anything to win the election, including stuffing the ballot boxes. Biden, Pelsoi and Schumer are the most vile people to be elected as President and members of Congress.  They do not serve the people.  They serve themselves. 

    • You nailed it and people had better wake up to see what the current bunch of Marxists have in store for this nation.  Whether or not we keep or lose our freedoms and democracy depends on the upcoming mid-term elections.

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