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It's very hard to impeach a president and congress has attempted it only four

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times and no us president has ever been removed from office through impeachment,

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impeachment if the political process of leveling charges against public officials

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accused of wrongdoing is a two-step process impeachment in the house education and

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...the first presidential impeachment attempt fell on president andrew johnson who

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...charges leveled against him for violating a law that would

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later be overturned as unconstitutional in the end...voted to acquit

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...single vote in nineteen ninety eight presidents bill clinton

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benefited from a majority backing in the senate leading to one percent acquittal

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to a president remaining in office and three and impeachment process that actually

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brain is clinton's approval rating unlike clinton president richard nixon did not

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have a majority of the... that without stepping down he would likely be convicted

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so he left office before the house voted to impeach

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and to ensure that president cannot us here

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...the us constitution provides a system of checks and balance

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the system that insures near the executive branch legislative branch

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...judicial branch have absolute our the legislative branch

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...but the executive branch can in fact video shows lost

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...judicial branch could also...those laws unconstitutional

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and similarly justices of the supreme court are appointed by the executive

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...like a legislative branch without these checks and

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balances the united states does not have a democracy.