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Part 3: Evidence from the Drafting of the Impeachment Clauses
This is the third part of a four‐part series on the 1876 impeachment trial of former Secretary of War William Belknap. In each part, I will examine a different category of argument made at that trial on the question whether the Senate has constitutional jurisdiction to try and convict a former officer. In Part 1, I summarized the arguments at the trial based on constitutional text. In Part 2, I turned to the arguments based on the English practice of impeachment prior to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. In this part, I reach the arguments based on James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention on the framing of the impeachment clauses.
Part 4: The Consequences of Late Impeachment
This is the fourth and final part of a series on the 1876 impeachment trial of former Secretary of War William Belknap. In each part, I have examined a different category of argument made at that trial on the question whether the Senate has constitutional jurisdiction to try and convict a former officer. In Part 1, I summarized the arguments at the trial based on constitutional text. In Part 2, I turned to the arguments based on the English practice of impeachment prior to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. In Part 3, I recounted the arguments based on James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention on the framing of the impeachment clauses.
Today is the 157th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation made by
Abraham Lincoln when the outcome of the rebellion of the Southern slave states against the Union was still up in the air was a watershed for civil rights in the United States. Though it was a military order that only affected slaves in the rebellious states, it also set the stage for the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and other legal rulings that affected not only African Americans and former slaves, but also Native Americans, Women, other racial minorities and LGBTQ people. It is something that in our era when so many civil rights are under threat that we must remember and continue to fight for in the coming years. Freedom is never free.
Blair Senior Wins Congressional App Challenge
A Montgomery Blair senior won U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge. Kevin Xu, along with teammate Leon Si, a junior at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Canada, created a free virtual whiteboard app that is designed to improve virtual learning for teachers and students.
The teenagers designed Tabulo, which connects a mobile device to a computer and turns it into a drawing pad that enables users to draw or write on their phones. Their designs and writings are synced to the computer in real-time.
The students saw the need for teachers to use a whiteboard like they do in the physical classrooms. Without Tabulo, they have to use a computer mouse, which is limiting, according to the students.