How to get rid of a president by david priess

The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted - successfully and not - to remove unwanted presidents