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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    I don't know but that seems to defy the plain meaning of 'pardon.'

    Wikipedia reads: "A pardon is a government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime to be free and absolved of that conviction, as if he or she were never convicted."

    I would think the clause was meant to correct judicial error.
    See the federalist papers on pardons, the federalist papers specifically contemplate a pardon offer in the face of an insurrection. Obviously pre-arrest, pre-conviction.

    Post war we have a blanket pardon for the vast majority of Confederates.

    We also have Ford pardoning Nixon before conviction.

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