...constitution. The meaning of impeachment in Texas constitution, is the process by which legislative branch has authority to remove a sitting public official like Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Senate shall try Comptroller and the Judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and District Court. It is stated in article 15 in the constitution. The impeachment and removal of public officer is done by the state house. In order for an official to be impeached, the Texas House of Representatives must bring articles of impeachment. If the house adopts articles of impeachment, the Texas state Senate must then sit as the court of impeachment. During the time of sitting, the Senators shall be on oath, or affirmation impartially to try the party impeached, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present. However, the maximum judgment in cases of impeachment shall extend only to removal from office and disqualified from holding and office of honor. But according to the law, the convicted party also subject to formal accusation, trial, and punishment. However, by this we can say that there is not a big difference in U.S. and Texas Constitution, but it makes little difference in the process of...
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...Abstract: There have been only two times an impeachment of a president occurred in US history. A third was underway until the president resigned from office. However, the question remains about one of these impeached presidents, did former president Bill Clinton deserve to be impeached. There is clear cut evidence that Bill Clinton had broken an oath while working as president, yet some of these matters are personal business. Diving deeper into this matter, finding facts on the reason for the impeachment, what case was made against Bill Clinton to be put on trial, and the main question on if he deserved to be impeached. Introduction: Impeachment is a sole power given to the House of Representatives by the Constitution and makes the Senate...
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...IMPEACHMENT OF A JUDGE PROCEDURE OF IMPEACHMENT: Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment. A member of the higher judiciary, which means the Judges and Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of India and the state High Courts, can be removed from service only through the process of impeachment under Article 124 (4) of the Constitution on grounds of proven misbehaviour or incapacity. In India, there is no other process by which a Judge can be removed from office before his term comes to an end. However, the process is very cumbersome. Impeachment of judges can only be done on grounds of 'proven misbehavior' and 'incapacity'. if a judge of SC is to be impeached, recommendation must be made by the chief justice of India to the President. if it is accepted then a proposal for impeachment must be introduced by atleast 100 MPs in Lok sabha or 50 MPs in Rajya sabha. the concerned judge is to be given a copy of the proposal before the discussion takes place in the Parliament. the motion should be passed by a majority of two-thirds of the members present and voting ,seperately in each house. if the motion is passed...
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...political theory are both similar and different in its own way. The Iroquois political system was the building blocks of the US constitution and that's why we have some of the similar ideas in the US constitution. Areas such as the three branches of government, impeachment, and executive branch getting veto power are in both political systems. The US government is divided into three parts; the...
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...What is impeachment? What happens if you get impeached? Impeachment is when congress decides on the criminal acts the president, if he should be dismissed from the title as president or not. Bill Clinton was in the process of being impeached. In this essay, I will provide you the history of President Clinton, the reason why he was impeached, and finally the results of his impeachments. Want to know what happens if you get impeached, then keep reading. Born in Hope, Arkansas, on August 19, 1946, President Clinton was raised by his mother and his alcoholic and abusive stepfather. Bill Clinton decided he wanted to be President when he first shook hands with President John F. Kennedy while visiting the White House during a high school field trip in 1963. Bill Clinton claims this was one of his most memorable events as a youth. Bill Clinton went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and earned a Bachelor degree in International Affairs. He then went on to study government at Oxford University in 1968, followed by Yale to study law. In 1975, Hillary married Bill and a year later he was elected as Attorney General of Arkansas. In 1978, Bill Clinton became the youngest governor in the U.S. President Clinton didn’t have the most spotless reputation of high morals. By 1992 when he became president, he successfully defeated the allegations of marital infidelity, pot smoking, and dodging the draft for the military (The History Place- Impeachment: Bill Clinton, http://www...
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...House Judiciary Committee of the Constitutional Basis for Impeachment Speech by Barbra Jordan on Jul 25, 1974 Mr. Chairman: I join in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible. Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, “We, the people.” It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.” Today, I am an inquisitor; I believe hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. …The subject of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men. That is what we are talking about. In other words, the jurisdiction comes from the abuse or violation of some public trust. It is wrong, I suggest, it is a...
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...Watergate Scandal. For years to come after this the American people would have have trust issues with the government and the republican party as the next elected president after Nixon was Jimmy Carter who was a democrat. In (Document C) it says “ The impact of such an ordeal would be felt throughout the world, and it would have its effect on the lives of all Americans for many years to come.” It also says “Impeachment of a President is a remedy of last resort; it is the most solemn act of...
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...It ended up with thirty-five senators voting guilty and nineteen senators voting not guilty. It was just one vote short less than a two-thirds majority. Even though I disagree with almost every action Andrew Johnson took during his presidency, I do not believe that he should have been impeached. The impeachment process requires a legal crime to impeach the president and the only crime Johnson committed was violating the Tenure of Office Act. In my opinion, I think that crime is a very weak reason to impeach any president. He may have made some very wrong decisions in many people's’ eyes and mine, however those decisions were completely legal and not impeachable. Considering the impeachment process should only vote on the crime committed, with any other president, I doubt the impeachment vote would’ve even been close or...
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...The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. After the five burglars were caught and the conspiracy was discovered, Watergate was investigated by the United States Congress. Meanwhile, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration, an impeachment process against the president that led to articles of impeachment,indictment of 69 people, with trials or pleas resulting in 48 being found guilty, many of whom were top Nixon officials. Nixon and his close aides also ordered investigations of activist groups and political figures, using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as political weapons....
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...President while talking on the phone to her friend named Linda Tripp, who was a political activist. In 1997 Ms. Tripp, who had recorded her phone conversations to Ms. Lewinsky where she talked about her relations with Mr. Clinton, forwarded the records to an attorney Kenneth Starr who has started official investigation. Actually, the reason for the investigation appeared not the fact of sexual relations between the President and Lewinsky, because a breach of faith is not regarded in the USA as a crime or malfeasance. During questioning Clinton was asked if he had intimate relations with Monica Lewinsky, and the President denied that fact while being under oath. It is well known that perjury is a felony and, moreover, a foundation for impeachment, i.e. removal of the President from the position (Franke-Ruta, 2013). In January, 1998 the first information about the sexual scandal went to the press, first of all to websites. The key moment...
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...The United States Constitution states that a judge is allowed to serve under “good behavior” but may be impeached if necessary. However, impeachment rarely happens. Even if a judge is convicted of a felony, there is no automatic removal clause. A situation currently in the news that is demonstrative of the difficulties of removal of judges is regarding District Court Judge Mark E. Fuller of the Middle District of Alabama (Blinder). Judge Fuller was arrested and charged with battery of his wife in August of this year. Despite the repeated requests of officials for his resignation, Fuller refuses to do so, and there is no clause that allows him to be removed (Blinder). It appears that impeachment would be the only option, and impeachment is a difficult process that generally only applies to dereliction of a duty of upholding an official office. Although assaulting a spouse is a crime, and is a bad thing, it falls short of the definition of dereliction of duty of a...
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...The separation of powers hinders effective government in the USA. Discuss. (30 marks) The ‘separation of powers’ is a theory where political power is distributed over the 3 branches of government. This was put in place to create a limited government which would essentially help to avoid tyranny and protect the liberty of citizens. Some of the checks and balances include: the president checking congress by presidential veto; the presidential veto is checked by congressional override; the supreme court uses judicial review to decide whether legislation or actions are unconstitutional; presidential appointments are confirmed, and treaties ratified by the Senate; and finally the president is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, but only congress can declare war. Checks and balances are needed alongside the separation of powers. Checks and balances are essential for the scrutiny of the three branches of government, however they come with some disadvantages. One reason as to why the separation of powers hinders effective government in the USA is because there is often a divided house within government which subsequently results in gridlock when passing legislation or when each branch exercises their powers. It is not uncommon that the majority party in congress is the opposite of the party that the President belongs to. This usually means that the legislative and executive have contrasting views. Most recent presidents have accused the Senate of either rejecting or blocking...
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...‘The separation of powers hinders effective government in the United States’. Discuss The ‘separation of powers’ is a theory – adopted from Montesquieu in 1748 – where political power is distributed over the 3 branches of government. This was put in place to create a limited government which would essentially help to avoid tyranny and protect the liberty of citizens. Neustradt stated that it was the institutions that are separate and not the powers. If the branches were totally separate, power would be difficult to exercise especially with the use of checks and balances. Instead there is a separation of personnel, where not one member of one branch can work within another branch. So all in all, the US government created a doctrine of ‘shared powers’, where checks and balances are needed. Madison agreed with this, and said: ‘you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself’. Some of the checks and balances include: the president checking congress by presidential veto; the presidential veto is checked by congressional override; the supreme court uses judicial review to decide whether legislation or actions are unconstitutional; presidential appointments are confirmed, and treaties ratified by the Senate; and finally the president is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, but only congress can declare war. Checks and balances are needed alongside the separation of powers. Checks and balances are essential...
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...When creating Congress, the Founding Fathers of the United States set out the powers and limits of the House of Representatives and the Senate, making it a bi-cameral system with power shared between the two houses. The Senates role in this bi-cameral system of Congress is to: ratify Presidential appointments and foreign treaties and tries the impeachment of a President. Filibusters also happen in the Senate. The President has the right to nominate individuals into positions throughout the government. From judges, administrative positions and secretaries in a range of agencies. Article two, Section two of the US Constitution gave the Senate the right to give consent to every nomination, as well as suggesting other nominees for those positions and the final vote to accept or decline the nomination. A nominee only needs a simple majority of votes for the position. An example of the Senate confirming an appointment would be the replacement of Supreme Court Justice, John Paul Sanders in 2010. Sanders was replaced by Elena Kagen. The vote was 63 to 37, 58 being Democrats and 5 being Republicans. The Senate alone has the right to give consent and advise to the President for all National Treaties.; once signed by the President, a treaty has to go to the Senate (the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations). The Senate will then assess the benefits of the treaty to the US and then come to a vote. 67 votes or two thirds of the 100 Senators are needed for the President to then...
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...Bernnell Peltier 2 Nixon and the Watergate Scandal In 1968 Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United States of America. Only serving one full term, he also was under heavy scrutiny and the only President to resign from office. His resignation came before his inevitable impeachment from Congress. With the resignation of his Vice President Spiro Agnew (in 1973 because of bribes and kickbacks; Brinkley 2007) he was also forced to “come clean” in his scandals about the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. The Watergate scandal was when five men from Nixon’s re-election committee broke into the Democratic Party headquarters on June 17, 1972. Nixon was soon accused of “covering up” the scandal and refusing to turn over evidence subpoenaed by the Supreme Court ("Impeachment History" 2007 Pearson Education). The Beginnings As the 36th Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952-1960), Nixon a Republican was defeated in the 1960 Presidential election by John F. Kennedy. He continued to work as a Republican leader throughout the 60’s and worked his way to the forefront by the 1968 election. Nixon was noted for his diplomatic foreign policy with Soviet Union and China, and his efforts to end the...
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