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		gbacon 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of ... We are discussing the pardon power, an explicitly anti-democratic measure that is unilateral and unreviewable. The constitution defines a federal republic, not a democracy.

senderista 23 days ago [–]

Not everything originally in the Constitution is a good idea, or at least isn't anymore. That's why it specifies an amendment process.

gbacon 22 days ago | [–]

I wish detractors would follow the Article V process rather than amendment by usurpation, as George Washington condemned it.

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