Many Democrats, including some constitutional law professors, now argue that President Trump can be impeached without evidence of high criminal acts. Some of them took the opposite view when President Clinton was being impeached. Putting aside the hypocrisy, there are good historical reasons why the impeachment approach of Democrats is wrong.
During the debates over the impeachment provisions of the Constitution, two differing views of our structure of government were presented. Some Framers argued that a president should be subject to removal by the legislature if he engaged in malfeasance of office or other comparable noncriminal misconduct. The other Framers took the view that giving the legislature such broad authority to remove a president would turn our country into the kind of parliamentary democracy that existed in England, rather than a republic with a strong executive branch.
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