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If kind, caring people ran the planet, the phrase “holy war” would be contradictory and “war crime” redundant. But, alas, the opposite is true: War isn’t criminalized; according to international treaties, war is perfectly legal (in way too many scenarios, anyway). And wars aren’t just holy; according to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others, they’re sometimes divinely mandated – and then, it would be sinful NOT to wage war.
WhenyoureadthelettersofourFoundingFathers,there’saclear,causallinkbetweentheDeclarationofIndependenceandthetheoryofregicide.Sincewe’reendowedbyourCreatorwithcertaininalienablerights,wethereforehaveaGod-givenrighttowagewarandkillamonarchwho’ddepriveusofthem.
Theconstitutionalpreceptofpresidentialimpeachmentstemsdirectlyfromregicide:AsBenFranklinpointedout,whenyoucomparethetwo,impeachmentwasinapresident’sbestinterest,becauseotherwise,theonlymechanismforremovinganunfitleaderwasassassination,renderingtheex-president“notonlydeprivedofhislifebutoftheopportunityofvindicatinghischaracter.”
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