AHC: Make Impeachment Relatively Common in America

I actually think the opposite is needed. A weaker president would have less reason to be impeached because Congress could easily overrule him, but a stronger president, whose main check on power is the threat of impeachment and removal, would be more likely to be faced with Congressional opposition.

Also, the removal level needs to be a bare majority as well for this situation to work.

That is a very good point.

Perhaps not a simple majority, but 3/5s of each house or something like that.
 
Okay, without impeaching Johnson, some other ideas of how Reconstruction may have been a success and may have led to approximate equality for black citizens?
 
Okay, without impeaching Johnson, some other ideas of how Reconstruction may have been a success and may have led to approximate equality for black citizens?

Have Lincoln pick a different, radical VP. If we can get Congressional Reconstruction immediately rather than have Johnson block all legislation, it will greatly boost civil rights. Something will have to be done with the Panic of 1873 as well, because that allowed the Democrats to return to power, effectively killing any hope. The Panic also caused the shift from Reconstruction to economic issues as the main focus, I think, with the rise of the Greenbacks and eventually the Populists.
 
Wasn't Andrew Johnson a Democrat ? ?

And I like and respect the fact that Lincoln included talented people of both parties in his cabinet, but it may have been a mistake to do this for the vice-presidency.
 
Wasn't Andrew Johnson a Democrat ? ?

And I like and respect the fact that Lincoln included talented people of both parties in his cabinet, but it may have been a mistake to do this for the vice-presidency.

It was as part of a National Union ticket. By picking a fiercely loyal Southern Democrat, it helped him. I of course despise what Johnson did with Reconstruction. But no one expected Lincoln to die.
 
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