Andrew Johnson Failure Of Office Act Essay
President Andrew Johnson was charged with breaking the Tenure of Office Act, which was the law put in place by Congress that stated a president may not replace a government official who was appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate without the Senate’s approval (Ladenburg, 2007). Johnson wanted to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who was appointed by Abraham Lincoln and vigorously disagreed with the president over Reconstruction being a Radical Republican at the time. There seem to be two ways that this incident could have gone, depending on which side one is on when dealing with the impeachment process. One side would be the case to acquit based on that Stanton was a member of the cabinet during Lincoln’s administration and could be fired by
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Johnson when he took office after the election. It is believed that Johnson opposed Congress’s plan for Reconstruction like he predecessor and all he wanted to do was to follow through with his plans. He wanted to protect the rights of the states to control their own domestic institutions while Congress was trying to force the dictatorial power of the national government on unwilling peoples.
They didn’t represent the country and Southerners were being kept out of Congress until they submitted to rule by former slaves. This action could be seen as a stain on Congress and the country itself if he was convicted and presidents would be at the mercy of Congress forever and have no power in the executive branch at all. However, if Johnson was convicted and impeached (which he was), the case would be that when he broke the law and needs to be punished for he actions. This is based on two reasons: to help traitors who led the country into Civil War and to hurt the Freedmen. Johnson was notable for pardoning rebel leaders and opposed all attempts to give freedmen their rights and took their land to give back to the rebels. In addition, he advised Southern leaders to disobey the Reconstruction Act, shuffled generals around to prevent enforcement of the act, and vetoed the Civil Rights Bill and the Freedman’s Bureau Act (Ladenburg, 2007). He even allowed rioters in Memphis and New Orleans to kill dozens of
freedmen. The Constitution is based on the three branches of government and he failed to carry out the law since he didn’t do the job required of him under the Constitution. Not only did he fail to see the law was faithfully executed but he advised others not to obey it and broke the law by appointing a successor to Stanton.
The Cowboys are so iconic in American because they have been depicted in movies based on myths created by an uneducated society. People for years have believed such myths like (1) cowboys fought Indians, (2) the cowboy was the great rugged individualist of his time, (3) the cowboy played a major role in American history, (4) cowboys died in gunfights, and (5) a cowboy’s life was exciting (Meyer, 2017). Cowboys were mostly young men who needed cash and in addition to cattle, they helped care for horses, repaired fences and buildings, worked cattle drives, and in some cases, helped establish frontier towns. Many developed a bad reputation for being lawless and were banned from certain establishments. They typically wore large hats with wide brims to protects from the sun, boots to help them ride horses and bandanas to guard them against dust while some wore chaps on the outsides of their pants to protect their legs from sharp cactus needles and rocky terrain. When they lived on a ranch, they shared a bunkhouse with each other and entertained themselves with songs, playing the guitar or harmonica, and wrote poetry. Cowboys were usually referred to as cowpokes, buckaroos, cowhands, and cowpunchers with the most experienced ones being called Segundo and rode alongside the trail boss. The everyday work they did was difficult and laborious with workdays lasting about 15 hours with much of that time spent on a horse or doing other psychical labor.
Shortly after the Spanish arrived in the Americans, they began to build ranches to raise cattle and other livestock while horses were imported and put to work on the ranches. Many of the native cowboys were called vaqueros and were hired by the ranchers to tend to their livestock and were well-known for their roping, riding, and herding skills. By the early 1700s, reaching continued into present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and as far south as Argentina. Many English-speaking settlers then migrated to the West and adopted aspects of the vaquero culture such as their clothing style and cattle-driving methods. There have been known to be cowboys from African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexicans and settlers from the eastern United States and Europe. Manifest Destiny became a big part of in the mid-1800s when the US built railroads which allowed cowboys to round up their livestock and be transported around the country for sale. Open ranges became more popular since they served as huge pasturelands to the herds of Texas ranchmen and were largely free of farmers with their barbed-wire and grass-eating sheep. When water was scarce, wells were drilled and dams were also constructed. There was even an influx of British capital for investment in open-range ranching which leads to the formation of cattle companies and creates profits for raising beef for domestic consumption or overseas shipment. Winters were the worst since it lost hundreds of thousands of cattle which helped homesteaders take over and fence the lands.
Johnson when he took office after the election. It is believed that Johnson opposed Congress’s plan for Reconstruction like he predecessor and all he wanted to do was to follow through with his plans. He wanted to protect the rights of the states to control their own domestic institutions while Congress was trying to force the dictatorial power of the national government on unwilling peoples.
They didn’t represent the country and Southerners were being kept out of Congress until they submitted to rule by former slaves. This action could be seen as a stain on Congress and the country itself if he was convicted and presidents would be at the mercy of Congress forever and have no power in the executive branch at all. However, if Johnson was convicted and impeached (which he was), the case would be that when he broke the law and needs to be punished for he actions. This is based on two reasons: to help traitors who led the country into Civil War and to hurt the Freedmen. Johnson was notable for pardoning rebel leaders and opposed all attempts to give freedmen their rights and took their land to give back to the rebels. In addition, he advised Southern leaders to disobey the Reconstruction Act, shuffled generals around to prevent enforcement of the act, and vetoed the Civil Rights Bill and the Freedman’s Bureau Act (Ladenburg, 2007). He even allowed rioters in Memphis and New Orleans to kill dozens of
freedmen. The Constitution is based on the three branches of government and he failed to carry out the law since he didn’t do the job required of him under the Constitution. Not only did he fail to see the law was faithfully executed but he advised others not to obey it and broke the law by appointing a successor to Stanton.
The Cowboys are so iconic in American because they have been depicted in movies based on myths created by an uneducated society. People for years have believed such myths like (1) cowboys fought Indians, (2) the cowboy was the great rugged individualist of his time, (3) the cowboy played a major role in American history, (4) cowboys died in gunfights, and (5) a cowboy’s life was exciting (Meyer, 2017). Cowboys were mostly young men who needed cash and in addition to cattle, they helped care for horses, repaired fences and buildings, worked cattle drives, and in some cases, helped establish frontier towns. Many developed a bad reputation for being lawless and were banned from certain establishments. They typically wore large hats with wide brims to protects from the sun, boots to help them ride horses and bandanas to guard them against dust while some wore chaps on the outsides of their pants to protect their legs from sharp cactus needles and rocky terrain. When they lived on a ranch, they shared a bunkhouse with each other and entertained themselves with songs, playing the guitar or harmonica, and wrote poetry. Cowboys were usually referred to as cowpokes, buckaroos, cowhands, and cowpunchers with the most experienced ones being called Segundo and rode alongside the trail boss. The everyday work they did was difficult and laborious with workdays lasting about 15 hours with much of that time spent on a horse or doing other psychical labor.
Shortly after the Spanish arrived in the Americans, they began to build ranches to raise cattle and other livestock while horses were imported and put to work on the ranches. Many of the native cowboys were called vaqueros and were hired by the ranchers to tend to their livestock and were well-known for their roping, riding, and herding skills. By the early 1700s, reaching continued into present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and as far south as Argentina. Many English-speaking settlers then migrated to the West and adopted aspects of the vaquero culture such as their clothing style and cattle-driving methods. There have been known to be cowboys from African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexicans and settlers from the eastern United States and Europe. Manifest Destiny became a big part of in the mid-1800s when the US built railroads which allowed cowboys to round up their livestock and be transported around the country for sale. Open ranges became more popular since they served as huge pasturelands to the herds of Texas ranchmen and were largely free of farmers with their barbed-wire and grass-eating sheep. When water was scarce, wells were drilled and dams were also constructed. There was even an influx of British capital for investment in open-range ranching which leads to the formation of cattle companies and creates profits for raising beef for domestic consumption or overseas shipment. Winters were the worst since it lost hundreds of thousands of cattle which helped homesteaders take over and fence the lands.