To the Editor:

“The Only Option” (editorial, Sept. 29) speaks to the urgency of this inflection point in our history.

The framers of our Constitution were learned men who knew that in the course of human events, one day our democracy might be tested by a president of low moral character and self-serving venality — a man who harbored kingly ambitions and brooked no dissent.

Indeed, it is time for, in your words, “the most radical check of all.”

The Republican Party has abdicated its pledged responsibility to uphold and to defend the laws embedded in our Constitution. The Democratic Party must now move forward expeditiously to prove its case to the American people for bringing forth articles of impeachment against this dangerously hubristic president.

Our country and the world are watching how the process unfolds, as our presumed fail-safe system of government is under siege from within. Can we self-correct? Are we a nation of laws or of men?