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I'm bored and I don't want to draw, so here's this

Maybe I'll draw tomorrow

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how does 1776 expect me to mentally recover from the ending where everyone is standing while signing the declaration of independence while the liberty bell rings after 2 hours and 47 minutes of jefferson and adams having sexual tension, jefferson’s wife using metaphors to describe her husband’s violin playing, benjamin franklin in himself, charles thomson becoming an emoji dictionary, abigail adams needing pins, edward rutledge losing his sanity, caesar rodney almost dying, everyone complaining about flies and how hot it is, john hancock committing treason with his big signature, richard henry lee dancing around talking about ladies and the resolution on independency, robert livingston’s on-fleek eyebrows, john witherspoon sleeping and defending his aunt, samuel chase eating causally, james wilson’s existence, and the dickinson-adams brawl???

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Hamil-Burrn: Samuel Chase, the Publius Letters, and Hamilton’s Critique of Public Corruption:

At age 21, a young and fiery Alexander Hamilton directed some serious vitriol towards Samuel Chase, a Maryland Congressman. As a Congressman, Chase had known of Congress’ secret plan for securing flour to supply the French fleet. He then passed on this information to profit-minded associates, who hatched a plan to corner the supply of flour and raise its price. In a series of three Publius letters in October and November 1778, Hamilton blasted Chase for seeking to profit from the Revolution, and using his position as a Member of Congress to damage the country and the Revolutionary movement.

The first Publius letter, published on October 16, 1778 accused Chase of violating his sacred responsibilities of office:

But when a man, appointed to be the guardian of the State, and the depositary of the happiness and morals of the people—forgetful of the solemn relation, in which he stands—descends to the dishonest artifices of a mercantile projector, and sacrifices his conscience and his trust to pecuniary motives; there is no strain of abhorrence, of which the human mind is capable, nor punishment, the vengeance of the people can inflict, which may not be applied to him, with justice. If it should have happened that a Member of C———ss has been this degenerate character, and has been known to turn the knowledge of secrets, to which his office gave him access, to the purposes of private profit, by employing emissaries to engross an article of immediate necessity to the public service; he ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment, and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.

Hamilton’s deep abhorrence of corruption and the use of political power for personal gain is apparent in his criticism of Chase. Particularly during a time of war, Hamilton felt that Chase’s use of information he had gained through his position of political trust for profit made him a “traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.”

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Hamilton’s accusations effectively ended Chase’s career in the Continental Congress, and led him to near bankruptcy. Chase went home to Maryland, but returned to the national stage in the 1780s as a strong critic of the new Constitution. Chase would eventually switch his political beliefs and became aligned with the Federalist Party. [. . .]

read about the rest of the letters that Hamilton directed at Chase & find out what happened to him in the end...

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Is impeachment the only way of removing a Supreme Court Justice?

It’s the only legal way. And, technically, impeachment doesn’t remove a Supreme Court justice from office; it’s just the first step. An impeached justice would have to be found guilty in a Senate trial by 2/3rds of the Senate in order to be removed from office.

By the way, that has never happened. In March 1804, Associate Justice Samuel Chase was impeached by the House of Representatives, but he was acquitted in his Senate trial in early 1805. Justice Chase was the only Supreme Court member ever impeached, but since he was acquitted by the Senate he wasn’t removed from office and remained on the Court for the rest of his life.