Brian Devon wrote:
Number of non-house members elected speaker, since the country's founding: Zero.
Why are y'all so excited about lost causes?
Additional zeroes include: impeachment, conviction, and removal of a president. You can also add, new constitutional conventions to that list, as well as c**p d'etats and your favorite one, civil war 2.0.
The subject was not if such a thing has ever happened, but whether or not it is Constitutionally permissible.
You are not addressing this subject, and you are the one who brought it up.