"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total."

representative barbara jordan, speaking during the house judiciary committee hearing on the impeachment of richard nixon, july 25, 1974...

“Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, ‘We, the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 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.’

“My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.... [As was said at] the North Carolina ratification convention: ‘No one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity.’”

barbara jordan is quoted by ray mcgovern, writing in consortium news, about the absolute necessity of moving forward with impeachment proceedings against dick cheney, and using the one unassailable, publicly admitted crime, the use of warrantless domestic wiretapping in direct violation of fisa, as the grounds...

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