[gbacon]

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]

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]

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