Impeachment

The Impeachment of President Johnson was a result of a political battle with radical Republican movement. In February 1866, in response to the vetoed bill extending the controversial Freedmen's Bureau by the President, the Congress (controlled by the Republicans) passed the Civil Rights Bill, which gave blacks the privilege of American citizenship and struck at the Black Codes. Fearing that the Southerns might repeal the civil rights law Congress overruled the President's veto for this bill and

Shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the US Patriot Act granted was enacted granting wide legal authority to the intelligence community as a defensive measure against future terrorist attacks. Among those new powers, included in Article 215, is the right to obtain business records, while imposing a gag order on the party holding those records. This law remains the foundation upon which the current NSA phone metadata collection campaign is operated. In October 2001, President

occurred not too long ago would be the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was impeached for having an inappropriate and unprofessional relationship with Monic Lewinski. Lewinski served as Clinton’s intern at The White House. The investigation to impeach Clinton began in October 1998 and he was impeached in December 1998. However, “Clinton was spared removal from office after the Senate voted to acquit him in February 1999” (Clinton Impeachment). The argument for Clinton needing to

performed by federal officeholders? It is impeachment. Impeachment is the Constitutional power given to the House of Representatives to remove a federal officeholder from office. “Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution says, ‘The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’." (Longley). The power of impeachment has historical significance as only four

Expressed in the Constitution, the Congress has the power to impeach the president. This power is divided between the two houses, in which the House of Representatives brings up impeachment powers and the Senate tries all impeachments(Doc 1). The framers of the Constitution purposefully made it this way for they feared that the Executive branch could gain too much power and turn into the Monarchy that Great Britain was at the time. Even before the framing of the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation

having taxes and the limits on the power of them. The implied powers tells us about the war powers and other expressed powers. The last is the Non Legislative powers tell us about the impeachment of the president . The three main points i'll talk about will be the purpose of our taxes, other expressed powers, and impeachment. The article of confederation had not given the power to tax. “To lay and collect taxes, duties imposts and excises, to pay the debt and provide for the common defense and general

removed from office for committing bribery, treason, or any other major misconducts. Also, the House of Representatives and Senate have the power to bring in the impeachment charges and vote based on majority before the official is removed from office (The Heritage Foundation). One historical example of when Congress has attempted impeachment of a sitting president is when Andrew Johnson was impeached because he was not able to adhere to regulations which banned firing cabinet members without Congress’

Andrew Johnson was president from 1865 to 1869. Presidents Clinton and Johnson were both impeached during the presidencies. This paper will include information on both presidents’ impeachments, how their cases were similar and different, along with my personal thoughts on their cases. William (Bill) Clinton’s impeachment was started around his sexual relations in 1994 with Paula Jones. Clinton’s lawyers wanted to grant immunity to Clinton while he was in office. The case reached the Supreme Court

(Legislative, Judicial, Executive.) The branches can keep themselves in check in several ways, such as: presidential veto, impeachment, overridden vetoes, judicial review of local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Checks and Balances just keeps any branch from maintaining too much power within the federal government. February 24 1868, Andrew Johnson is impeached. His impeachment was a direct consequence of his ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’ Andrew Johnson fired and appointed a new secretary of

The United States Congress comprise two houses, one of them is the lower house known as the House of Representatives, the upper house known as the Senate. These two chambers made up the legislative branch due to the agreement of the bicameral legislature resulted from the Great Compromise in 1787. The House represents the population, while the Senates are appointed by the Congress. Both started new session on January 6, 2015. However, they have different majority leader; Kevin McCarthy was the leader