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dixiegrrrrl

(60,168 posts) Mon Dec 4, 2017, 02:58 PM Dec 2017

Remember what happened to the FIRST guy who said kings were above the law: [View all]

At his trial in 1649, Charles I defended himself: ""No learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King... one of their maxims is, that the King can do no wrong."

The great-grandfathers of the authors of the Constitution cut off Charles' head for that.

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Remember what happened to the FIRST guy who said kings were above the law: [View all] dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 OP

He is not the first guy, he was the last :lol marylandblue Dec 2017 #1

Louis XVI of France fared no better. DFW Dec 2017 #3

That's true, just the last in the Anglo-American tradition marylandblue Dec 2017 #4

That'd be James II, actually Spider Jerusalem Dec 2017 #11

By the time they wrote the Constitution DFW Dec 2017 #2

Please, we are more civilized today. marylandblue Dec 2017 #5

Wasn't he taken from a Tower malaise Dec 2017 #6

Ha!!! I do believe you are correct! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 #9

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Dec 2017 #10

I keep repeating... nocoincidences Dec 2017 #7

So there's hope. Trump's supposed to go to Great Britain in February. Vinca Dec 2017 #8

The FIRST guy was in 1216, if we wanna get technical.. sir pball Dec 2017 #12