During this unprecedented moment in U.S. history, TIME called up several presidential historians to ask what the nation’s Founders might have thought about charging an ex-President with a crime
the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump, making him the first former President to face criminal charges.
. For Jack Pitney, Professor of Politics at Claremont McKenna College, Federalist Paper #51 comes to mind. The Framers of the Constitution wrote these pamphlets to explain the document to the public, and in #51, James Madison outlines the system of checks and balances—the measures that hold public officials accountable to the law and make sure one branch of government doesn’t become all powerful.
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