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What is, and Why is, there an impeachment going on in Washington, D.C.?
Noah Webster was probably the greatest scholar of the English language which the world has ever seen. In his 70,000-word American Dictionary of the English Language, which he published in 1828, he defined the word impeachment like this: It is,
“An accusation or charge brought against a public officer for maladministration in his office…In the U. States, it is the right of the House of Representatives to impeach, and of the Senate to try and determine impeachments.”
What does the U.S. Constitution say about impeachment? Article II, Section 4, of the Constitution gives us these few words about impeachment:
“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.”
What do these few words mean? Perhaps the best way to understand them is to define them from Webster’s 1828 Dictionary; since that dictionary was written in the generation of our Founders: Thus, its definitions were the common understanding of that day. Definitions of words have been changed radically in the last 100 years to fit the socialists’ agenda of destroying our Biblically-based Republic, changing it to a socialist regime (meaning dictatorial government). Hence, the need to return to Webster’s 1828 definitions.
Since the Constitution states that “impeachment” (meaning an accusation that merits a trial) must be only for “Treason, Bribery, or other Crimes and Misdemeanors”, let’s define those words. Webster writes that “Treason” means:
“In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance…In the United States, treason is…confined to the actual levying of war against the United States, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
Webster defines “Bribery” as:
“The act…of giving or taking rewards for corrupt practices…”
Webster defines “Crimes” as:
“…an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man.”
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defines “Misdemeanor” as:
“…minor wrongs against public rights…”
So, which one of these are President Trump’s enemies in Congress accusing him of? Well, that’s difficult to tell because the Democrats who’ve charged him are vague about that because they aren’t actually using the language in the Constitution. Adam Schiff said, at one point, that he ‘may have committed Bribery’—though their case for this seems very weak. And the vote in the House of Representatives was all of the Democrat Party majority; which was not the case in the only other two impeachments in our history. That vote in the House gives huge evidence that this is merely a move by the socialists to remove the President who has, by far, done more to destroy their plan to take over America than any other President.
Since we “…wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against…the rulers of the darkness…” (Ephesians 6:12)—in other words satan and his hordes—could it be that satan so hates the restoration of religious liberty this President has been working, and hates the threat of the free flow of the Gospel of Christ in any nation so much, that this impeachment is a scheme of his?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.