DBWI Andrew Johnson not removed from office

May 26, 1868, the date when the hand of Edmund Ross, Senator from Kansas, sealed President Johnson's fate by voting "guilty" and providing the necessary 36th vote to convict the President and remove him from office.

Without the removal of the President, what would have become of the Presidency? There was a push at the time to get rid of the office altogether since it was seen as too powerful.
 
I think America would have become a more parliamentary like system in the late 1800s if Johnson was not removed from office, given that they would want more power for congress and less power for the president if Johnson stayed in and kept vetoing.

It should also be noted that this would only give Johnson about another ten months or so.
 
This is true, and it is true that Congress wanted to become more parliamentary, but then again, it kind of did. The President is pretty much a figurehead as far as policymaking goes; I mean, the House has chosen the head of state since the Chase amendment anyway (kind of an oddly named amendment in retrospect since Samuel Chase was in the Senate at the time and he ended up being a big driving force behind the Progressive-backed amendment that got rid of the Senate. Good riddance anyway; could you imagine a backwater like Wyoming having the same pull in Congress as New York?)

Of course, nowadays the Presidency is a big popularity contest anyway, since they always pick someone just to be an ambassador of American awesomeness and they don't really do much of anything now. They have a lifer running the military and law enforcement, so the President's hardest job is basically campaigning anyway. I mean, President Kardashian's idiot daughter leaked a sex tape and nobody cared, but Speaker Biden drops an F-bomb in private conversation and almost gets expelled from the House. Talk about different standards.
 
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