Impeachment

The United States government has three branches; legislative, executive, and judicial. The founding fathers created these branches in order to separate power. During our founding, our founding fathers feared a tyrannical government so they put into place a set of checks and balances in order to prevent one from forming. Checks and balances are when one branch of government doesn 't let another get too powerful. There are several examples of this but to put it simply, there is a set amount of…

The contemporary perspective of democracy is that all citizens should have the right to participate in elections and control the structure of the government and who holds office. For example, numerous people consider America undemocratic because Trump won the presidential election losing by two million votes, and that the voice of the people was not accurately represented because the final decision was put into the hands of the electoral voters. One of the earliest forms of democracy evolved in…

The United Kingdom was founded on May 1, 1707. It is believed that the Celtics were the first to inhibit Great Britain. They arrived in the country around 500 to 100 BC. The Greek navigator Pytheas was the first to mention the Island. He explored the coastline in 325 BCE. Great Britain was a very strong country, but like everyone else they had problems and events that helped structure the count. One event was the strife between Whigs and Tories it lasted from 1707-1721. Great Britain was under…

Becoming president comes with great responsibilities that some may not know of. Once a person becomes president they are taking on a huge weight of our country and we trust in this person to make it as great as can be. The duties of a president are hard at times; he/she has veto power, the appointment power, the power to convene congress, the power to make treaties, the power to preside over the military, and the pardoning power. With the president being in control of the veto power he/she can…

In June 17, 1972 5 men had broken into to the watergate office in Washington DC. The money they had stolen was called a slush fund which is money used illegally in mostly political aspects. Later on through ther investigation it was later realized that the the burglars slush fund was related to Committee for the Reelection of the President which was one of the main campaigning systems for president Nixon. Nixon had tried to move the attention away from him and his committee by calling upon the…

(1951), the President can elected for maximum two full elected terms. According to the political practice, the President during his term is inviolable but like every American officer is accountable if he breaks the Constitution. This is the impeachment. The House of Representatives has the right to make out the case and the process carried out by the Senate as a specific judicial forum. If it is proved that the President is guilty, they unseated him, why he loses the exemption and has to face…

The second special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Leon Jaworski, said, “From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law”(“The Watergate Scandal”). President Richard Nixon dishonored the presidency by being deceitful to the country, misusing his powers by being involved in illegal acts, resulting in corruption and lies. Watergate…

Constitutional History of Afghanistan (1923 – 2004): In today’s world every countries constitution is a result of an event, and mostly emerged from an independence, revolution, or a change in regime, Kuwait wrote its first constitution after its independence 1961, India’s constitution was created after its independence in 1947, and Thailand enacted a constitution in 1932 after toppling the absolute monarchy.In this regard Afghanistan is not an exception, looking at the history of…

1) The powers and obligations of the legislative branch, as dictated by Article 1 of the Constitution, as a whole are as follows: sole authority to enact or change legislation, to make all laws necessary and proper, declare war, sign or pass bills, to tax, borrow money, regulate commerce with foreign nations, regulate commerce among the states, to establish rules for the naturalization of foreigners seeking citizen ship, to establish a post office, to raise and army and navy, the right to…

In the course of human events, it sometimes becomes necessary for Americans to evaluate their former presidents to determine how their actions affected the nation and whether they serve as beneficial role models for future presidents. The two presidents of the twentieth century that provide the most contrast in this regard are Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served from 1933 until his death in 1945, and Republican Richard Milhous Nixon, who served from 1969 until his resignation in 1974…