On Wednesday afternoon the House of Representatives voted on a single article of impeachment on with the goal of removing Donald Trump from office in the last week of his presidency. Democratic Congressmen David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Ted Lieu of California all members of the House Judiciary Committee entered their single-article impeachment resolution into the record when the House convened on Monday. The.
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Why the Whig Party Collapsed
For all its prominence and power in the mid-19th century, the Whig party became divided over slavery and couldn t keep it together.
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For all its prominence and power in the mid-19th century, the Whig party became divided over slavery and couldn t keep it together.
In the mid-19th-century, the two most powerful political parties in the United States were the Democrats and the Whigs. In two presidential elections, 1840 and 1848, Americans voted a Whig into the White House. And some of the most prominent political voices of the contentious pre-Civil War era were Whigs, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and a one-term Illinois congressman named Abraham Lincoln.
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Today we re answering a question about one way a President can be legally removed from office. There s impeachment. and then there s the 25th amendment. What is the 25th amendment? And how does it work?
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The 25th amendment to the Constitution lays out the transition of power if a President is unfit or unable to serve. It also outlines the process for selecting a new Vice President in the case of a vacancy.
The 25th amendment was enacted after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, officially passing Presidential power to the Vice President, a power the Vice President did not necessarily have until this amendment.