Impeachment

The action of Andrew Johnson that broke the back of the Senate and caused a vote for his impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors was his removal from office of Secretary of War Stanton and his appointment of general Lorenzo Thomas in his place. The Senate felt Johnson’s move was in violation of the Constitution and laws of the U.S., which did not allow for him to have

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therefore, to be distinctly settled whether the President has the power of dispensing with the laws?” Johnson’s hot tempered nature did not help his cause any particularly among his enemies. However, he found the Tenure of Office Act unconstitutional and decided to completely ignore it, and he knew Stanton was the bully of the Republicans to force the South into submission for their own ends, mainly getting the black vote to bolster their own power as a party. Johnson gladly gave Stanton the boot. The Republican majority retaliated by impeaching him under Article I, Sections 1, 2, and 5, of the Constitution. He was impeached for ‘Treason, Bribery or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors’, Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution. Much like the Republican majority would come to hurl at President Clinton during his impeachment, Johnson was subjected to a torrent of personal abuse during the impeachment process. Charges from his involvement in the plot to assassinate President Lincoln to his intent to use the War Department to stage a coup d’etat were lobbied at Johnson, all of them absurd. After a three month trial, Johnson was acquitted by one vote. The only negative consequences that resulted in the long run were suffered
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