The American Constitution. Hawaiian Kingdom.
37. Impeachment Was Written Into America’s Constitution
America’s Founding Fathers wrote into the constitution a process for removing the president from office for obnoxious behavior. They based the method on British civil law, but they added a distinctly American flavor to it. They did not take lightly the fact that impeaching a president meant overturning another constitutional process, that of voting for the president to put him or her into office.