Impeach Season
As of Wednesday, September 25, 2019, what portion of the U.S. House of Representatives favored an impeachment inquiry of Trump?
How accurate was your prediction?
What exactly is an impeachment inquiry and how does it differ from an impeachment?
According to Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution under what circumstances may a President be impeached?
Why did the Framers of the Constitution write an impeachment process into Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution?
What U.S. presidents have been involved in an impeachment process?*
Explain how impeachment relates to James Madison’s writing in Federalist No. 51, “the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.”
There are 435 voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives. How many of them are needed to impeach?
Make a claim about the likelihood of impeachment that can be substantiated by the data in the chart above.
What data that is NOT included in the chart above makes it hard to know whether Trump will be impeached?
Make a claim about the likelihood of impeachment based on any one of the charts below*.
There are 100 voting members in the U.S. Senate. How many of them are needed to impeach?
Connect the dots between the chart above and checks and balances:
Describe how political party polarization is present in the chart.
Read the transcript of Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian President Zelensky and explain whether you would consider this worthy of impeachment under Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Describe the argument the typical Democrat would make about why Trump should be impeached.
Describe the argument the typical Republican would make about why Trump should be impeached.
Explain which of those arguments is more persuasive to you.
Explain which of those arguments you believe will be more persuasive to the American public.
Explain whether Trump will be impeached by the House.
Explain whether Trump will be impeached by the Senate.
Explain whether impeachment will be good for America.
if Trump is impeached by the house and the senate Do you believe that he would follow the constitution and willingly step down?
