Impeachment in the United States

The founders of the United States had many hard choices to make when deciding to “form a more perfect union” with the Constitution. They had to make a federal government that would be acceptable not only to the common people but to the naysayers as well. If they did not satisfy the needs of the people, then they would not be able to trade and be recognized as a power on the world market. The founders needed a way to convey this to the citizens of the United States and make them interested in…

Congress try to impeach President Johnson? The impeachment of President Johnson seemed to be more of a political and dispute matter as opposed to Johnson conducting a high crime or misdemeanor. Although he narrowly escaped removal from office, it was very clear from the start that his policies and plans or opposition for reconstruction were unpopular with radical republicans and congress. Before we get into the legal reasoning for his impeachment, we have to understand his conflicts and…

array of ideals brought to the convention in the attempts to create a free and prosperous United States of America. Being one of the more active members, a great majority of the book concerns itself with James Madison from Virginia but also examines the ideals of Hamilton, Paterson, Pinckney among a handful of others. Other ideals brought about by the other 54 members concerned problems of small vs large states, rights of its citizens, and the powers that the government possessed. Of all the…

Clayton Garnier 3/3/15 3rd Period, 2nd Period The Best President “If you want them, you’ll have to go through me.” There is always a best president to ever lead the USA. As a worker in the Smithsonian’s new wing in the American History Museum we all have to chose who the best president was. It was an easy choice to make. The man I chose did many things to help the country prosper. Bill Clinton is the best president because he signed the Violence Against Women Act, the Violent Crime and Law…

Joshua George Professor Belco Federalist No. 47: Separate, Equal, and Shared Powers in the Government The Federalist Papers were written to support the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and to emphasize the need for the Constitution to the many states that did not support the approval. In the Constitution, the three branches of government were separate and equal, but also unified in certain aspects to keep the other branches in order. The Federalists believed that this separation would…

terms for the South were infuriated (Severance). Tensions between the two contradicting sides grew as neither parties were willing to compromise and the issue culminated in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson,…

Articles of Confederation. A problem that showed the weakness in the government was Shays’s Rebellion, it happened between the years of 1786 and 1787 and contained a group of Massachusetts farmers. These farmers did not agree with the implementation of state and local taxes so they started many riots and attacked government officials. The real problems was not the rebellions but the fact that the national government could not stop them because they were not given the power to raise and army by…

allied forces in WWII. By the 1952 election, the United States did not officially enter the Vietnam War. Per a lecture from POSC 458 - the Vietnam Wars, the United States officially entered the conflict in Vietnam in 1955 although President Harry S. Truman sent “advisors” to assist the French and insisted the “advisors” are not going for combat mission. That being said, national security was a major issue as a result of a different war the United States was involved in - a civil war in Korea…

Trump Foreign Policy Introduction President Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech recognized that the United States must work with Islamic allies to defeat terrorist organizations, like ISIS who can’t be defeated by military force alone, however his execution of following through on many of his promises from the Trump campaign have yet to be determined. Trump additionally wants to maintain an open amity with countries like China and Russia, but with open eyes acknowledging the foreign…

of the United States consists of three branches: the legislative, judicial and executive. The legislative branch, also called Congress, makes our laws and is divided into 2 parts, one called the Senate and the other House of Representatives. The judicial branch includes the Supreme Court where judges interpret laws, according to the Constitution, and can consider if laws passed by Congress are constitutional or not. The executive branch, administered by the President of the United States,…