Research Paper On Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president, was great at many things. Unfortunately, drinking alcoholic beverages a little too much and dying of tongue cancer are two of those things. Those two things aside, he was, at one time, the President of the United States of America, a Civil War brigadier and major general, great strategist, and was influential in the northern victory of the Civil War.

In statement on the articles of impeachment, Barbara Jordan facts that proved Nixon to be irresponsible, dishonest and profoundly involved in illegal situations. Barbara outlined both logical and emotional reasons in her speech to convince the House of Reprenstatives, and the American public that the President Nixon should be impeached. She stated that Nixon authorized break-ins at Democratic campaign headquarters in Washington and that he was involved in many political dirty tricks and improprieties. She added also that the President Nixon had tearing the Constitution and if he he is not stopped, he will use his power given by the White House to commit more crimes. Barbara was emotional and showed that she loves her country which is not the

During the nineteenth century, the United States had a historical turn with the 17th president of the country Andrew Johnson. According to several printed and online sources, Johnson was born during the first years of the nineteenth century in 1808. He was elected the 17th president of the US in 1865 and served the States for four years as his presidential mandate. He believed in his Democratic party at the time to base his politics.

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 his vice president, Andrew Johnson, was sworn into office, the first time ever a president had to take office because of the previous president being murdered. Andrew Johnson was a democrat, so he had major challenges when he took office. It didn’t help either that he was from Tennessee, a state that seceeded fromt the Union during the Civil War. In an effort to try and make friends in Congress with the Republicans Johnson agreed to deny representitives from southern states that seceeded from the Union to sit in Congress. This came to back fire on him because he was from Tennessee but because he elected to help the North during the Civil War the southern state representitives didn’t support him at all. The rest of Congress started not to later in his tenure and he became the first president to have a veto overridden on him with ⅔ vote from Congress. Also there were two really bloody riots in the south that involved slavery, putting a bad stamp on Johnson. Congress put several laws on the President that would get him impeached if he violated any of them and when he violated the Tenure of Office Act he became the first president to get impeached. Because he had to work with radical Republicans in Congress Johnson never got his way when it came to trying to help the country improve from the Civil

In February, 1868 President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, the Senate tried the case in a trial, which lasted from March to May 1868. During the Civil War the far-reaching Republicans wanted to give the African-Americans more freedom and rights that the conservative Republicans, both were on the side of the North. He was impeached for violating the “Tenure of Office Act”, which had been passed over Johnsons veto. It prohibited the president from dismissing certain federal official without the Senate approval, and for denouncing Congress as unfit to legislate. In 1867, President Johnson made an effort to test the constitutionality of the act by swapping Stanton with General Ulysses S. Grant. On the other hand,

In the tumultuous aftermath of president John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) assumed the office of the presidency and inherited Kennedy’s passion for civil rights. His push for civil caused immense friction within the democratic party, as well as the entire country. Johnson redefined the democratic party reforming it into a progressive liberal party. Johnson 's push for civil rights and reformation of the democratic party caused widespread backlash in southern whites severely weakening Democratic control of the “solid south”, the backlash stemmed primarily from the south’s history of racism and segregation and was further incensed by Vietnam and the various civil reforms of Johnson

Andrew Johnson was born in december 29,1808 in Raleigh,NC.He later then died in July 31, 1875 in Elizabethton TN.His political party was democratic, his presidential term was from April 15, 1864 to March 4 ,1868.Bill Clinton was the only other president to get impeached, he was impeached by the House Of Representative but acquitted by the Senate.Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky but that was not the ground of the impeachment.

Antony Johnson, according to history, is said to have arrived in Virginia particularly 1621. Most people were referring to him simply as “Antonio a Negro”. In the same year, the overseers from Warresquioake in the location of James River bought him as a slaver worker in their tobacco plantation firms. Being a seventeenth century Virginian slave, Anthony Johnson had no surname. In accordance to the law of that time, if he was able to convert to Christianity and document his Christianity practices, Johnson could have sued successfully for his freedom. Due to hardship of life and mistreatment of blacks, Johnson settled in Bennett plantation where he was only concerned with seeking providing for his survival but not his legal identity.

Ever since President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial there has been controversy concerning the final vote that sealed the decision. Johnson had taken the office as president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. However Johnson, who was a Democrat, immediately clashed with the Grand Old Party because it had been dominated by Radical Republicans, specifically Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner.

Johnson was then elected as the 17th President. After Lincoln's death, Andrew Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. When Congress met in December 1865 most Southern States were reconstructed, slavery was abolished, black codes were beginning to come out. Radical Republicans in Congress tried to change Johnson’s program. A few months later congress passed the 14th Amendment, by the time of May 1868 came, the Senate passed a single vote came to remove the President from office.

Was Johnson really exercising his right to free speech while burning the American flag? Some would argue he did, but others will say he didn’t. In most cases, majority would say he wasn’t practicing free speech which lead him to dishonor the U.S. flag. Flag burning will endanger the symbol of the role as representation of nationhood and national unity. We would be permitting a Sate to “prescribe what shall be orthodox” by saying that one may burn the flag to convey one’s attitude toward it and its referents only if one does not endanger the flag’s representation. Here I stand to say that for Johnson to burn the flag is very disturbing to our country as well to our peers. For him to do that wasn’t right and very rude. Many U.S. troops fight for our flag each and every day for our freedom and for us to live a natural free life instead of having many rules that would over power us.

He became a Mayor at the age of 22 which is very impressive to most people. The city he was Mayor of was Greeneville, Tennessee, he served as Mayor for 4 years. He was elected as a Tennessee House of Representatives in 1835.He had later become a Tennessee State Senator before he was elected to the congress in 1843. In 1862 President Lincoln made him Military Governor of Tennessee, In 1864 the Republicans, said that their National Union Party was for all loyal men, nominated Johnson, a Southerner and a Democrat, for Vice President.When the assassination of Abraham Lincoln happened Johnson was the vice president. Since he was the vice president when Abraham L. was killed(assassinated) he became the president. The new vice president and president

The Constitution fastens the responsibility of trying impeachments upon the Senate. Yet some Senators have doubted whether they have the requisite competence to try impeachments . Rule XI was adopted as a response to poor attendance and preparation by Senators in impeachment trials in the early twentieth century. Yet even in the 1980s, some Senators claimed that they had not bothered to prepare before voting, and such proceedings diverted their energies away from legislative business of greater concern to their constituents. Others argued the proceedings restored their confidence in the Senate 's institutional competence to conduct them. In any event, the Framers of the Constitution vested that task in the Senate and nowhere else.

Impeaching the president is accusing the president of a crime, and putting him in jail, or any other punishment. Impeachment is a very serious and time consuming process, but is for the good of the people. Impeachment makes the president and the people even in crime, and many people love impeachment if it is needed. Impeachment has a lot of steps, and people checking each other, but there hasn 't been to many real impeachments that have taken action.

I can understand why Andrew Johnson ranks as one of the worst presidents of all time. In reality he was a strategical political move by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln chose him for his running mate to “quiet dissent by running with a non-northerner and a non-Republican” (Schultz, 2013). Had Lincoln known that this decision would cause any advancement he had made prior to his death in the Reconstruction process to take gigantic leaps backwards he may have made a different one. Johnson saw his office as a way to finally receive the respect of the southern aristocracy. He was only concerned with looking good in their eyes and not focused on doing what was right for the broken nation he was put in charge of. Here was a nation that had ripped itself apart