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Cartoons Left, Right & Center  Jewish World Review / Nov. 6,
1998 / 16 Mar-Cheshvan, 5759  Don Feder  Don Feder Historians
against the Constitution  ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. and a few
hundred of his closest friends and ideological soul mates had a
full-page ad in The New York Times last Friday, headlined,
"Historians in Defense of the Constitution."  With defenders
like these, the Constitution needs no detractors.  The ad
implores us to champion the Constitution by opposing the
impeachment of Bill Clinton.  That is to say, the signers want
us to preserve the Constitution (under glass? in amber?) by
ignoring the Constitution. They would have us honor the
Constitution by allowing Clinton to shred it.  Schlesinger, et
al warn us that the Framers "explicitly reserved" impeachment
for "high crimes and misdemeanors in the exercise of executiv