Principles of American Government: Impeachment and Senate Investigations 🕵️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the implications of separation of powers and checks and balances for the U.S. political system

⏰ What We Did

• Used the impeachment process and the investigative powers of the Senate to provide specific examples of checks and balances
• Scrutinized historic presidential articles of impeachment in groups to determine whether the accusations met the constitutional standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors"

⚙️ Resources

• 10 Principles of American Government: Impeachment and Senate Investigations
• Articles of Impeachment Against President Andrew Johnson (1868)
• Articles of Impeachment Against President Richard Nixon (1974)
• Articles of Impeachment Against President Bill Clinton (1998)
• Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump (2019)
• Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump (2021)