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While "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was a term of art dating to 1386, and had thus accumulated centuries of intellectual baggage, there's no reason to think the Framers had all that in mind.

— Laurence Tribe To End a Presidency (2018)

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Nothing is more devastating than a life without liberty.

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

So they wanted a general term that would refer to profound abuses of power that threaten the rule of law.

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"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny of disparage others retained by the people."

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

So the framers of the constitution struck a balance and left the judgement to us.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it.

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