Johnson+Impeachment

Johnson Impeachment In February 1868, the House voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson over his firing of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, in alleged violation of the Tenure of Office Act; he was acquitted by the Senate. Was Johnson: • A victim of a Radical Republican dominated Congress seeking to remove him from office by any means possible because the Radical Republicans disagreed with his Reconstruction policies? (PRO) • Guilty of intentionally violating a federal law, and thus of violating the Constitution—and just as citizens cannot get away with breaking the law, neither should presidents?

Pro: They should impeach Johnson because of his opposition to radical reconstruction and in vialation of the tenure of office act

CON:I THINK IT IS WRONG TO IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT

PRO: he was also wrong for his actions because the president himself can not that an action was unconstitutional or not so he just do anything he want just because he is the president.

PRO: also is that if the people of the united states has to follow the rules< so does the president he does not get special treatment because he thinks something is wrong.

CON: johnson did not violate the law because stanton was picked by lincoln and not johnson

CON: it said in the constitution that a cabinet member picked by a president can work during the presidents term...............but since lincoln is dead then stantons term is also done

PRO: but Johnson still did not have the authority to remove someone jus because hHE felt that the general made a bad decision it was not johnson's choice to make, it was the people's to vote

CON: but the president is responsible for the acts of his cabinet, he should be permitted to select his members

PRO: But will agree to tell us by what AUTHORITY her became the obstructor of an un repealed law instead of its executor?

PRO:IF he is not willing to execute the laws passed and respect his own proper authority by the American Congress and unrepealed, let him resign from office which was once thrown upon him by a horribl convulsion and retire to his village obscurity