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  • the legislature sends passed resolutions of impeachment to the judiciary for a final decision. However, the President, who presently serves a single ...
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  • National Congress voted for Collor's impeachment after a sequence of scandals were uncovered by the media. The vice president, Itamar Franco, assumed ...
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  • There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges (for an offense in office) against the President of the Republic, the justices ...
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  • issued by the Sovereign could not impede an impeachment. ==Death== In 1702, William died of pneumonia, a complication from a broken collarbone ...
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  • failed—and Parliament opened impeachment proceedings against Buckingham. Charles responded by dissolving Parliament. This move, while saving ...
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  • powers to the prime minister and allowed for impeachment of the king by a two-thirds majority of the national assembly. In 1999, the king lifted a ban ...
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  • select various government officials, conduct an impeachment trial of the president, and accept or reject the bills passed by the House of Representatives ...
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  • protest against Estrada, following his aborted impeachment trial at the Senate of the Philippines. Estrada was a former movie actor who was popular with ...
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  • contains two independent courts: a Court of Impeachment and the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary. There are two courts of last resort: the state Supreme ...
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  • in the legislature, and ultimately, to his own impeachment and removal from office. Wade, 1987, 85. Despite this power, there was resistance to ...
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  • #039;s case, was compelled to halt the impeachment proceedings – Marlborough's successor, the Duke of Ormonde, had himself already been ...
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  • calling for his resignation and threatening impeachment. The Sandinistas alleged that their support for Bolaños was lost when US Secretary of ...
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  • power of decree and threatened with impeachment, Yeltsin "dissolved" the parliament on September 21, in contravention of the existing ...
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  • by Nixon. Nixon, threatened with impeachment because of Watergate, had resigned his office. Gerald R. Ford, Nixon's vice-president stepped ...
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  • opened the way for a national referendum on his impeachment. Post-Cold War Romania developed closer ties with Western Europe, eventually joining ...
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  • In the February 1999 Senate trial following the impeachment of Bill Clinton, McCain voted to convict the president on both the perjury and obstruction ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, America may refer to the nation of the United ...
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