Alexander Hamilton: Impeaching The President

Have you ever thought a U.S. president should be fired? The government has thought so too! There are just a few steps in firing a president. Only part of the government is involved in impeaching the president. There are three branches of government. The Legislative branch writes laws, the Executive branch passes them, and the Judicial branch decides if they are constitutional. To keep all of the branches equal, a system of checks and balances is used. In this system, each branch checks on the other branch to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Impeachment is one of many example of checks and balances. Although rarely used, Impeachment is a crucial part in keeping America’s government stable.

Impeachment as Alexander Hamilton describes it, is “misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust”(History, Art & Archives). In the process of Impeachment, a system of checks and …show more content…
Andrew Johnson was almost impeached but he was one vote away. Thirty five senators voted for him to be impeached. If one more senator had voted to impeach him, Andrew Johnson would have no longer been able to serve in office as America’s 17th president in 1868. If he had been removed from office, he would have been the first president to be convicted of Impeachment. Richard Nixon was also tried for Impeachment. He was tried because without him knowing, his campaign managers hacked into the other person who was running’s votes and changed them in Nixon’s favor. Nixon later found out about this but tried to cover it up and continued to make up lies to do so. He was tried for Impeachment but knowing what the outcome would probably be, he resigned on August 9th, 1974 as America’s 37th president. He did this to save himself the embarrassment and he knew "as President, [he] must put the interests of America

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