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> If the founders thought it was so important the President not have immunity from all crimes they would have written it such

They did; by writing in explicit immunities for some constitutional officers for certain activities, they implicitly rejected other immunities for those and other constitutional officers, by the legal principle “expressio unius est exclusio alterius”.






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