"Barbara JordanRemarks onImpeachment, July,1974"

Question

by Barbara Jordan
James Madison again at the ConstitutionalConvention: "A President is impeachable if heattempts to subvert the Constitution." TheConstitution charges the President with the task oftaking care that the laws be faithfully executed, andyet the President has counseled his aides to commitperjury, willfully disregard the secrecy of grand juryproceedings, conceal surreptitious entry, attempt tocompromise a federal judge, while publiclydisplaying his cooperation with the processes ofcriminal justice. "A President is impeachable if heattempts to subvert the Constitution."
If the impeachment provision in the Constitution ofthe United States will not reach the offensescharged here, then perhaps that 18th-centuryConstitution should be abandoned to a 20th-centurypaper shredder!
Has the President committed offenses, and planned,and directed, and acquiesced in a course of conductwhich the Constitution will not tolerate? That's thequestion. We know that. We know the question. Weshould now forthwith proceed to answer thequestion. It is reason, and not passion, which mustguide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guideour decision.
Rep. Barbara Jordan's remarks on impeachmentduring Watergate
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Why does the author
mainly
include allusionsin the passage?
(1 point)
to demonstrate her knowledge of the
Constitution
to add style and beauty to her argument
to support her argument about the
president’s impeachment
to show her respect for James Madison

Answer 1

The author mainly includes allusions in the passage to support her argument about the president’s impeachment.