Watergate Exam 1 Questions With Solutions 100% Correct
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Watergate Exam 1 Questions With Solutions
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Executive Privilege -The power of the president to keep executive communications
confidential, especially if they relate to national security
-Promotes honesty and candid advice from advisors
Impeachable Offenses -Treason
-Bribery
-Hig...
Watergate Exam 1 Questions With Solutions
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Executive Privilege -The power of the president to keep executive communications
confidential, especially if they relate to national security
-Promotes honesty and candid advice from advisors
Impeachable Offenses -Treason
-Bribery
-High crimes and misdeameanors
Treason -Levying war against the USA
-Adhering to US enemies
-Giving US enemies aid and comfort
Bribery -Taking or giving a bribe
-Motive and intent matter when charging the president with bribery
-Hard to correlate and prove
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors -Offenses having a flavor of criminality
-NOT maladministration
-Can be hard to define and determine
Bill of Attainder -A bill/law that makes past conduct criminal and imposes punishment for
it without a trial or reference to prior legality
-An ex post facto law
-Unconstitutional here
Eiusdem Generis -When a general word occurs after a number of specific words, the
meaning of the general word ought to be limited to the kind or class of things within which the
specific words fell
-Treason and bribery therefore set the tone for the type of things that high crimes and
misdemeanors are
Substantiality -Largeness, seriousness, and reality of an offense
-Misconduct worthy of impeachment must have this
-Debatable whether it must be all offenses together or each single offense meeting this category
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Strengths of the Congress -The president has little constitutional power of his own without
them
-Congress has the money/purse
-Congress can weaken the executive branch
The Courts in Impeachment -Courts can be used during an impeachment investigation
-They can be used to compel testimony and evidence, and congress will be bound by their
decision and timing
-Chief Justice of SCOTUS presides over the senate impartially
Trump Impeachment -Almost no bipartisanship, votes are almost 100% along party lines
-Two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of congress
-Withheld aid from Ukraine until they gave him dirt on democratic candidates
Impeachable Offenses That Are Not Crimes -Running the country remotely from Saudi
Arabia as a permanent residence
-Saying that one would never appoint an official of a specific religion/demographic/race
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