Book Two, Chapter 21, “Echoing Footsteps,” of A Tale of Two Cities, by the inimitable Charles Dickens.

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The Representatives who Weren’t:

The little matter of the Oath

More than half of the Republicans in the so-called House of Representatives have just pledged to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution. They have just declared that they would be the commanders, and not the representatives, of the people who just elected or re-elected them, as the case may be. They did this in announcing that they would vote to stop or reverse an election that has already been decided in the manner required by the Constitution. (Click on the player to listen to the audio narration of this episode.)

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