Impeachment Vocabulary
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A charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
What is Impeachment?
Impeachment of a civil officer starts in this part of congress
What is the House of Representatives?
The ability to make others do what you want them to do.
What is power?
Source of power at its most primal that controls the means of force whether in the police or in the militia
What is physical force?
President Trump is accused asking this country to investigate his political rival.
What is Ukraine?
Money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust
What is bribery?
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
What is a constitution?
Millions of protestors marching for equal rights is an example of this source of power
What is power by numbers?
This law states that those in power become more powerful while those who are powerless become less powerful.
What is power compounds?
These are the four impeachable offenses stated in the United States constitution.
What is treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors?
The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. This is also the only impeachable offense the constitution defines.
What is treason?
The portion of congress where the trial of impeachment of a civil officer takes place.
What is the senate?
This source of power uses law and bureaucracy to compel people to do or not do certain things.
This law of power states that power flows like a current through everyday life, harnessed and controlled by the government and policies made.
What is power is like water?
This person filed a complaint against the president with protection of anonymity under the law.
Who is the whistleblower?
All officers of the United States who hold their appointments under the national government, whether their duties are executive or judicial, in the highest or the lowest departments of the government, with the exception of officers of the army and navy. These officers are subject to impeachment
What is a civil officer?
Counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is NOT concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
What are checks and balances?
The charisma that a person displays is categorized as what type of power?
What is referent power?
Source of power that can convince individuals to change behavior based on what people think is or is not okay.
What are social norms?
This president was impeached after he lied under oath about sexual misconduct with a white house intern.
Who is Bill Clinton?
To free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
What is to acquit?
a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
What is an indictment?
Category of power where one person hold short term knowledge that another person wants.
What is informational power?
A category of power that influences through threat
What is coercive power?
This central figure and Ambassador to the E.U. in the impeachment inquiry just revised his testimony to congress, stating that a quid pro quo did take place with Ukraine
Who is Donald Sondland?