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May. 23rd, 2007 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsyche"The danger then consists merely in this: the president can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it. What will be the motives which the president can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be im-peachable by this house, before the senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust."
--James Madison
No one should be fired for doing their job. That's the long and the short of it.
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Date: 2007-05-23 05:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 05:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-05-23 10:12 pm (UTC)Actually, Johnson was hugely at loggerheads with Congress and was seen as impeding the nation's will. That he was willing to openly transgress against a passed law meant that he was baiting the Congress to impeach him.
It's very strange, running into people willing to defend Johnson. He is widely regarded as one of the worst presidents in history.