CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
The 4-Corners Doctrine
By
M. E. Boyd, Esq., “Miss Constitution”
My goodness; Miss Constitution finds herself having to address multiple issues that are pouring out of the media to the great confusion and consternation of the American people. Let me address three of these issues in as simple a way as Miss Constitution is able:
*Hunter Biden and Conflicts of Interest
*The House Intelligence Committee’s Hearings on Impeachment and Due Process
*The President’s call to the President of Ukraine and the 4-Corners Doctrine
The first issue is a very easy one. If the facts show that Hunter Biden was on a board or boards of companies that had any relationship to a foreign power while his Father was Vice-President, it is an inherent and possibly illegal conflict of interest. So, all we need to know is whether he was, in fact, involved in any way with foreign entities for economic gain. “A conflict of interest arises when a government employee’s (Vice-President Biden) personal or financial interest conflicts or appears to conflict with his official responsibility.” Title 18, United States Code, 203 etc. His son’s financial gain is inherently linked to the Vice-President’s governmental responsibilities. Period. (Quotes are from Black’s Law Dictionary.)
Issue number two. Impeachment begins in the House of Representatives because such a serious matter requires members go on record regarding their view as representatives of the Sovereign. A vote must be taken to begin an inquiry so that the Sovereign can note their representative’s vote. This precedent is not spelled out directly in the U.S. Constitution, but no impeachment has ever begun without this vote as evidence of the sincerity and integrity of the House. It also triggers Due Process rights for all parties. Due Process is “A course of legal proceedings according to those rules and principles which have been established in our systems of jurisprudence for the enforcement and protection of private rights.” See the 5th Amendment (federal) as well as the 14th Amendment (states). In addition, the House should have a high crime or crimes in mind. The hearings are not a fishing expedition to find a crime that could rise to the level of negating the will of the Sovereign in an election. Winning an election is not a high crime. In addition to a vote for an Impeachment inquiry, all proceedings must be open to the public and procedural Due Process available to all. Otherwise, anytime the opposing party wins the House of Representative an impeachment process will begin. We have right now an unlawful Impeachment proceeding conducted in secret without any procedural Due Process rights accorded to all parties. Period.
Which brings us to issue number three. The 4-corners Doctrine or Rule involves interpretation of statutes or state Constitutions or the federal Constitution and basically says that the intention of the author is to be “gathered from the instrument as a whole and not from isolated parts, thereof.” This means that the interpretation of the telephone call between the President of the United States and Ukraine can be interpreted by reading the whole thing. Miss Constitution recommends the Sovereign simply read the whole transcript. Each reader can then make up his or her mind what the intention of the author was. Miss Constitution is not going to re-print the whole transcript but will attempt to summarize where appropriate and quote in italics.
The President congratulates the President of Ukraine for his political victory. He states that the United States has done more for Ukraine than the European Union. The President of Ukraine agrees and says that his country is ALMOST ready to buy more military equipment from the United States.
I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. (The President is referring to the 2016 election.) I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine; they say Crowdstrike. . . The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. . . they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.
The President of Ukraine assures the President that all investigations will be done openly and candidly.
The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. . . it sounds horrible.
The President of Ukraine asks that the United States provide any additional information that might be helpful in the investigations and again assures the President that honesty will be restored. (The additional information is how Rudy Giuliani’s name came up.) Both agree that the Ambassador to Ukraine, a woman, is not good.
She would not accept me as a new President well enough. (Stated by the President of Ukraine.)
Miss Constitution feels the President had every reason and right to want to get to the bottom of Ukraine’s participation in trying to help the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 Presidential election and to get to the bottom of any corruption by the then Vice-President in helping enrich his son. She recommends, however you read the entire 4-corners for yourself. What is really bothering Miss Constitution is why Italy, Great Britain, Australia, Ukraine, and perhaps others are in the business of steering a Presidential election in the United States. Ordinarily they would not participate in such a thing. What has changed that is causing no hesitation now?
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