Article I
...The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachmentand may abrogate this power in a public statement from its speaker when it is deemed politically expedient to do so.
Section 3.
...The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present. Impeachment proceedings shall not be entered into unless the concurrence of two thirds of the members present is guaranteed prior to the trial; the breadth and level of crimes will come second to the guarantee of this concurrence as preserving advantageous political outcome strategy trumps defending our government's balance of power and this Constitution.
Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law. Unless an indictment is guaranteed, impeachment proceedings must not be begun. Section 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
Section 7.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it ,or he can circumvent Congress by signing and add his own interpretation of the law including what he will and will not follow, and Congress will not challenge this....
Section 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
...To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations except when they are committed by the Executive Branch and it is not politically helpful to the majority party to do so.;
To declare war,unless the President feels like doing so, in which case Congress should not present a challenge grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years and appropriation should take place even if the war is being lost if it is deemed politically expedient for the majority party to do so.;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions unless there is an ambiguously worded war with no paramaters claimed by the Executive Branch, in which case Congress should cede power.;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; these powers are to be simply ignored if a quagmire war is entered into and it is politically better to wait until the next round of elections to do anything to end it...
...To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereofunless the idea that there is nothing Congress can do about anything becomes prevalent, then Congress should ignore all power this Constitution mandates for the Legislative Branch...
...The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. The Executive Branch may interpret this in any way they see fit if their appointees agree with them, and Congress may stop fighting this if the idea that it is useless to do so becomes prevalent amongst its members.
... No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another, unless the commerce involves the oil industry or industries that have contributed heavily to campaigns, in which case preferences involving regulations of all kinds are granted.
Article II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President,unless the Vice President decides he is not part of the executive branch chosen for the same term, be elected or appointed by the Supreme Court, as follows....:
...In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may (just ignore the following in impeachment considerations)by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.The Executive Branch is entitled to receive any profit they may make indirectly through the declaration and continuance of illegal war, and Congress may not do a thing about this.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,except in cases where I, the decider, decide it should be dismantled."
Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.Congress may simply ignore any and all obvious powers this last statement implies for that branch
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments,unless it is established by precedent that the "President should always have his man" outside of what this Constitution dictates, and regardless of the outcome of inferior appointees...
Section 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed if he agrees with them, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, unless the majority party in Congress decides there will just never be enough votes to do so and it may cost them voters in subsequent elections, in which case all crimes including the dismantling of this very Constitution shall be ignored.
Impeach, our Constitution is fine the way it is, and it mandates action. Here's that last section again, without the portion some are seemingly fantasizing included:
It is time for all defenders of the Constitution to do your jobs.
