Impeachment

In May of 1865 President Johnson Declared his proclamation of Amnesty. Returning rebellious Southerners to their property. Some people were excluded including certain political leadership, military officers or a person whose taxable worth is more than 20,000. Johnson was a Democrat and a former slave owner which bothered the republicans. The Radical Republican plan for reconstruction looked to overturn the southern society and ending the plantation system. They wanted freed slaves to able to…

Now that you know about how the media informs the public we will move on to how the media exposes government corruption or controversies and how the government reacts to the exposure of these controversies by inspecting the intense scandal Watergate, which occurred under Richard Nixon’s administration. Details of how this scandal happen are bizarre, first, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the hotel Watergate who was caught and was carrying thirty-five hundred…

Debatably, people hug nonprofit organization with higher ethical values than business and government. Nevertheless, some nonprofit workers deceitful conduct annihilates this confidence. In the case of a dreadful treasurer in my organization, I will set methods to disentangle these troubles without harming the image of my nonprofit. Arguably, the response is not at all times to push the wearisome treasurer off the organization, I rather rule for elucidating and perceiving the starting place of…

The Court ruled unanimously that President Richard Nixon had to surrender the tapes. Chief Justice Warren Burger delivered the opinion of the Court. Burger wrote, “The impediment that an absolute, unqualified [executive] privilege would place in the way of the primary constitutional duty of the Judicial Branch to do justice in criminal prosecutions would plainly conflict with the function of the courts under Art[icle] III.” Burger then turned his attention to the damage that a privilege of…

Established by Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of 1876, the office of governor of Texas was created as a state office. It was initially established by the Constitution of 1845 that succeeded the president of the Republic of Texas office. Today the state of Texas is overseen by the chief executive of Texas (the governor) and run by the other branches of the government, one of which is the legislative. The governor has several duties that place his state rank at a status superior to…

Thaddeus Stevens, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, fought to abolish slavery and helped draft the 14th Amendment during Reconstruction, which granted citizenship to all persons born in the US. Stevens was unwavering in his desire to see the "infernal blot" of slavery removed from the republic. Thaddeus Stevens was born on April 4, 1792, in Danville, Vermont. Stevens had a difficult childhood, growing up fatherless, poor, and with a club foot.…

The corruption that grew within the Nixon Administration blinded the Oval Office of its legal and ethical obligations in upholding the Constitution of America. As a result, due to the overwhelming amount of evidence incriminating President Nixon of his involvement in the Watergate burglary, President Richard Nixon was forced, and became the first and only president in the history of the Unites States of America, to resign his post. Even after his decision to resign, President Nixon delayed…

Congress Authority and Presidential Power Congress which is also known as the Legislative branch was created to make laws, represent the people, perform oversight, help constituents, and educate the public. The Speaker of the House is chosen to represent Congress this person is referred to as the majority leader. The Senate of the House represents the minority leader. Checks and balances was created to ensure that no one branch had more power than the other through the separation of powers.…

Wounded knee is located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. South Dakota is home to the Sioux tribe and many of its counterparts including the Oglala, Rosebud, and the Yankton Sioux tribes. Wounded Knee, named after a creek on the reservation, was remembered as a place of much resentment, betrayal, of “the white man’s lies and promises,” and of lost hope because of the massacre that took place there in 1890. Eighty-three years later this same site would host a more controversial…

Satyagraha is the name of a nonviolent resistance movement involving protests that are not passive, but rather an active “clinging to the truth” (“Satyagraha,” para 1). Gandhi once described it as “Truth (Satya) implies Love, and Firmness (Agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force … that is to say, the Force which is born of Truth and Love or Non-violence” (Graham, para 4). Examples of Gandhi’s use of Satyagraha to resist British imperial rule include a boycott of British…