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Judge Luttig says if Trump succeded to get Pence to declare Trump the next president it would have plunged America into what I believed would have been tantamount to a revolution and the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the Republic.
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dawg
(10,624 posts)inthewind21
(4,616 posts)caused a civil war. Not a revolution.
civ·il war
noun
a war between citizens of the same country.
"they signed a peace accord ending the country's 12-year civil war"
rev·o·lu·tion
noun
1.
a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
"the country has had a socialist revolution"
Shipwack
(2,162 posts)I seem to recall a constitutional crisis over whether a state could leave the Union, or if one man could own another...
Earthrise
(15,524 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Why couldn't Gore have done the same in 2001? He only needed one state. Trump needed to flip three.
twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)inthewind21
(4,616 posts)revolution and civil war are not in the vocabulary of those attempting to correct the judge.
unblock
(52,253 posts)Wherein a number of electors were disputed. Eventually, they gave the presidency to Hayes, at the price of ending reconstruction in the south.
This gave the north a short-term victory but gave the southern racists an enduring triumph that was only partially undone in the 1960s.
But despite the mess and hugely significant outcome, there was little violence and it was nothing like a "revolution".