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Is prosecuting presidents a good idea?

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The Monarchy and the American Democracy

Ex-Presidents like Nixon and Rick Nixon clearly committed crimes around Contra. Would our democracy be healthier if we had held some of those presence accountable for the crimes? Brazil kind of shows the other side of this that what if you defer more to prosecuting because it does have risks. There's something to this that the left wing former presidents Lula and Joma were the charges are probably legitimate but that the extent of the prosecution was probably political.

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