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Impeachment: An Overview

The process of Presidential Impeachment is intended to be a political safeguard for the people and the US government to prevent being taken advantage of by anyone in office. The process is hundreds of years old and has been reinvented to fit the United States’ unique democracy. Its consideration as an addition to a limitation of the President was a subject of passionate debate in the construction of the Constitution. And in the process of the ratification of the law as it is known today, even opposing minds like Hamilton’s and Madison’s came together to help the people of their time understand the government they would be choosing. Impeachment is a political process that is intended to keep corruption and bad leaders out of power. America has a very long history with Impeachment. Lots of US officials, most of them judges, have been impeached in the US. However, there have not been so many presidents to experience impeachment. The impeachment of a judge isn’t so newsworthy and that ...

John Locke's Social Contract and Why We Live By It

           All peoples who are born into any civil society have entered their social contract. This is not a voluntary action. Children are born into the observed obligations of their fathers and so are subject to any laws that the land they were naturalized. It is their fathers who comply with the standing power in order to preserve their rights and serve their interests. This is a state of existence that lies beyond the state of nature. Within the state of nature men are indisputably free. Man is free to live his life and hold his property in any way he sees fit. Unfortunately, that freedom comes along with the freedom of others and others are not subject to the same perceptions that Locke’s theories on man in his natural state dictate. In this state, free men are subject to the brutalities of other free men who would assert their dominance over those who do not match them in might. And so, in order to create more equality in the world we live in, we ...