Place yourself in the United States Senate in 1867. You must vote on the impeachment charges brought against President Johnson. How will you vote? Explain how you will justify your vote to your constituents
What will be an ideal response?
One's vote would depend on how one defined the constitutional standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors," and one's view of the president's behavior. It was questionable as to whether Johnson did break a law, the Tenure of Office Act, and that law's constitutionality was open to question. Johnson did harangue Congress and obstruct Congressional Reconstruction, but were these "high crimes and misdemeanors," or mere political actions, and should a president be impeached for political opposition to the will of Congress?
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
When the House voted on the Wilmot Proviso, the vote was split along __________
a. party lines b. sectional lines c. religious lines d. socioeconomic lines e. gender lines
What support is there for the argument presented in your text that the South Asian people were more affected by Europeanization in this time period than were the Africans?
What will be an ideal response?
How do the Chinese view Confucius himself?
a. as a god to be honored b. as a foreign upstart to be forgotten c. as a wise sage to be reverenced d. as a man with unworkable ideals e. as a scandalous atheist who offends the gods