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 ...