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james madison again at the constitutional convention: "a president is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the constitution." the constitution charges the president with the task of taking care that the laws be faithfully executed, and yet the president has counseled his aides to commit perjury, willfully disregard the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, conceal surreptitious entry, attempt to compromise a federal judge, while publicly displaying his cooperation with the processes of criminal justice. "a president is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the constitution."
if the impeachment provision in the constitution of the united states will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder.
has the president committed offenses, and planned, and directed, and acquiesced in a course of conduct which the constitution will not tolerate? that's the question. we know that. we know the question. we should now forthwith proceed to answer the question. it is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
i yield back the balance of my time, mr. Chairman.
英文课前3分钟演讲稿 篇2
nviction; but nothing else can."
common sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons. congress has a lot to do: appropriations, tax reform, health insurance, campaign finance reform, housing, environmental protection, energy sufficiency, mass transportation. pettiness cannot be allowed to stand in the face of such overwhelming problems. so today we are not being petty. we are trying to be big, because the task we have before us is a big one.
this morning, in a discussion of the evidence, we were told that the evidence which purports to support the allegations of misuse of the cia by the president is thin. we're told that that evidence is insufficient. what that recital of the evidence this morning did not include is what the president did know on june the 23rd, 1972.
the president did know that it was republican money, that it was money from the committee for the re-election of the president, which was found in the possession of one of the burglars arrested on june the 17th. what the president did know on the 23rd of june was the prior activities of e. howard hunt, which included his participation in the break-in of daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist, which included howard hunt's participation in the dita beard itt affair, which included howard hunt's fabrication of cables designed to discredit the kennedy administration.
we were further cautioned today that perhaps these proceedings ought to be delayed because certainly there would be new evidence forthcoming from the president of the united states. there has not even been an obfuscated indication that this committee would receive any additional materials from the president. the committee subpoena is outstanding, and if the president wants to supply that material, the committee sits here. the fact is that on yesterday, the american people waited with great anxiety for eight hours, not knowing whether their president would obey an order of the supreme court of the united states.
at this point, i would like to juxtapose a few of the impeachment criteria with some of the actions the president has engaged in. impeachment criteria: james madison, from the virginia ratification convention. "if the president be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him, he may be impeached."
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we know the nature of impeachment. we've been talking about it awhile now. it is chiefly designed for the president and his high ministers to somehow be called into account. it is designed to "bridle" the executive if he engages in excesses. "it is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men."² the framers confided in the congress the power if need be, to remove the president in order to strike a delicate balance between a president swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the executive.
the nature of impeachment: a narrowly channeled exception to the separation-of-powers maxim. the federal convention of 1787 said that. it limited impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors and discounted and opposed the term "maladministration." "it is to be used only for great misdemeanors," so it was said in the north carolina ratification convention. and in the virginia ratification convention: "we do not trust our liberty to a particular branch. we need one branch to check the other."
"no one need be afraid" -- the north carolina ratification convention -- "no one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity." "prosecutions of impeachments will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community," said hamilton in the federalist papers, number 65. "we divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused."³ i do not mean political parties in that sense.
the drawing of political lines goes to the motivation behind impeachment; but impeachment must proceed within the confines of the constitutional term "high crime[s] and misdemeanors." of the impeachment process, it was woodrow wilson who said that "nothing short of the grossest offenses against the plain law of the land will suffice to give them speed and effectiveness. indignation so great as to overgrow party interest may secure a conviction; but nothing else can."
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thank you, mr. chairman.
mr. chairman, i join my colleague mr. rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. mr. chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible.
earlier today, we heard the beginning of the preamble to the constitution of the united states: "we, the people." it's a very eloquent beginning. but when that document was completed on the seventeenth of september in 1787, i was not included in that "we, the people." i felt somehow for many years that george washington and alexander hamilton just left me out by mistake. but through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, i have finally been included in "we, the people."
today i am an inquisitor. an hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the constitution.
"who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?" "the subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men."¹ and that's what we're talking about. in other words, [the jurisdiction comes] from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
it is wrong, i suggest, it is a misreading of the constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the president should be removed from office. the constitution doesn't say that. the powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive. the division between the two branches of the legislature, the house and the senate, assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge, the framers of this constitution were very astute. they did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person.
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这个冬天，真的很美，美得让岁月感到羞涩。
这段时间经常都会有太阳，让我对这个格外寒冷的季节有了几份特别的感激。很难想到冬日的川西平原竟然会有这么好的天气，而且这种好天气出现了好些日子。每天都被阳光，被明净的天空，与和煦的轻风所包围。
我终于明白了前段日子的绵绵细雨为什么而酝酿，原来是在苦苦的孕育这方明净与浩瀚。
有时候真担心这样的好天气转瞬即逝，真恨不得有一种东西可以把这样的阳光储存起来，待到寒冷酷冻时可以再打开取取暖。或许用鼠标将这样的天气复制，然后再把那些阳光灿烂的意境粘贴在那段最严寒的日子里。所以我很珍惜这样的岁月。
春之绚烂，有时又太稚嫩;夏之勃发，有时又太轻狂;秋之明净，有时又太凝重。我独爱这透着深邃与浪漫的冬。
又是一个晴朗的日子，天空如此浩远，只有淡淡的几片白云，点缀在这一片纯蓝上，却又游丝般飘在遥远的天际，就像是一幅山水画中的留白。极富浪漫的美。抬头望望苍穹，湛蓝湛蓝的，蓝的很纯净，很透彻。那一汪碧蓝是我在这个冬日里见到的最可爱的颜色。整个天际宛若深蓝的底色上开着几朵色彩淡雅的牡丹。
在这样的天气里阳光肯定是灿烂的、娇媚的，就像一朵开在天际的明亮的花，这朵花会发光，会发热，会普照大地、会温暧苍生。在这样的天空下，阳光拥抱我，轻风拥抱我，蓝天拥抱我，冬日的淡香拥抱我。感觉很美好、很释然。生活在城市中的大部分人都会被林林种种的事务压抑着，难得有这样的机会享受这份自然，这样的天气给了这个城市一缕明净，一丝轻盈，一片温暖，一份闲暇雅致，一点浪漫温馨。
冬日的下午在城市的边界找一块喝茶的好去处，最好是一边临城一边靠近乡间田野的地方，然后砌上一杯绿茶，一边晒着太阳，一边品着香茗。一边看着这些小嫩芽在杯中徐徐展开开出梦一般的小花。或者再找几个文友谈谈诗歌，议议散文，呵!真是一件舒服的事情。
一阵风吹过，树上的叶子窃窃私语，如蝴蝶翩动着翅膀，偶尔有几片叶子的言语被风听到，一不小心，几片发黄的叶儿依依不舍的从树间划落，就像一组意象从诗歌中飘落。在这个冬天这些叶子经过岁月的浸染，完成了它们一生的使命。叶落归根，在下一个春暧花开的日子里依然能听到它们在树枝间呤唱着春的诗歌。
在这样的季节里，总会让人情不自禁的想到萧条、孤寂、忧郁与落寞，甚至有时竟沉浸得深刻，无法抽离。这时候或许你的心灵正在下雪，或许你正肩负着某种心灵的重创。可是当这些可爱的光亮在你的窗外游离时，你难道能拒绝这份温暖吗?
打开窗户吧，打开心灵的那扇小窗，阳光会温暖你的遐思，轻风会为你梳理繁杂的心绪，阳光会照在你的身上，你的脸上，照亮你孤独的灵魂。
我把这些温暖的阳光搀扶进我的字里行间，真希望有更多的人能够感受到这份暖意。
所以我总是喜欢在有太阳，有蓝天的日子里把自己放在无边的原野晒晒，晒晒身体，也晒晒那颗被世俗打湿的心。在这样的时光中俯仰天地、驰骋思绪。感觉非常的酣畅与惬意。难得的释怀与轻盈顿时袭来。感觉这个世界美好到了极致。
我爱这个冬天爱得深沉，这个冬天如一首温暖的小诗铺排在岁月的脊背上。为这段时光吟唱着最诗意的歌谣。