VIEWPOINT | Presidential assassinations can destroy democracy

Guest column by David Adler, The Alturas Institute

The use of force, including assassination and other forms of lethal political violence, as a means of altering governmental regimes and political systems —tyrannicide, regicide and revolution — was part of the warp and woof of ancient politics and a central concern to the Framers of the Constitution.  America, after all, was founded on revolution. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, therefore, sought to create a republic sufficiently responsive to the will of the people to facilitate peaceful political reforms, which would eliminate the perceived need to resort to violence, the dark side of politics, to make changes.

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