invocations

[Daniel Wolf]

<In the political and legal debate on
<impeachment, Americans constantly invoke the country’s founders, citing
<18th-century writings to support modern views. Whenever they fret about
their
<country, somebody appears to tell them that things were better in a past
era,
<real or (usually) imagined.

More specifically, it will be the thirteen white, male, probably
land-holding, Republican Congressmen acting as 'managers' of the Senate
trial who will most often invoke the country's white, male, land-holding
founders. Many of them implicitly advocate a kind of conservatism that
would presumably be most comfortable if the franchise to participate in the
nation's affairs were once again limited to such a polity.