A lot of Republicans are saying that only elections should determine who holds an office, even if the candidate has been convicted, etc. But our country is NOT a popular democracy! It was setup as a Constitutional Republic exactly for this reason. A candidate who swore to support the Constitution of the US, and then took part in an insurrection runs right into the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which disqualifies such a person from holding any elective office. The language is perfectly clear, short, and sweet. If people want their popular insurrectionist candidates, they have to amend the Constitution first. Our founding fathers purposefully made that process difficult, which predisposes US law to have an underlying conservative bias.

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