Abuse of Office Quotes
This document was a type of Magna Carta but far earlier.
The President was advised that if he maintained his policies he would be impeached:
The debate was about the unlimited pardon power of the President. Madison argued that the check was the impeachment power. However, Presidents had tended to make large numbers of pardons just before they leave office so the impeachment power works only as a check for the beginning and middle part of their term.
The Senator was introducing a bill to remove Hoover's name from the FBI building that had been named after him.
The President was a left wing nationalist whose policies were counter to the interests of the United Fruit Company and other American businesses. His plan to build another canal connecting Atlantic and Pacific Oceans threatened to take business and control from the Panama Canal which at that point America owned. The CIA covertly engineered a right wing coup ousting him. At the time, it was US foreign policy to try and change any regime that was not acceptable to American Business interests in Latin America or was socialistic or both.
The convention turned down the constitution and would not ratify it until the Bill of Rights was passed later.
