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The Importance Of Speech Or Debate Clauses

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Dalton Teague History 10/22/15 The main point of this clause was to prevent presidents from exercising too much power over the Congress. It was meant to, for example, prevent the president from having members of Congress arrested so that they could not get to the Capitol and cast a vote that the president did not like. The makers of the Constitution were still worried about presidents using their power to work there way to the spot of dictators. For this reason, they included the Speech or Debate Clause. This will keep the power hungry president from trying to kick the people they don’t want out of the way and work there way to the top. This is what allows our people in office to speak freely with out fear or punishment. This allows there
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