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The failure to impeach Andrew Johnson showed that Congress cannot remove the president due to policy disagreements. This would give Congress toomuch power. - Andrew
separation of powers
President Andrew Johnson firmly opposed to the Fourteenth Amendment and recommended the former Confederate States not to ratify the same if it were to become a law. This opposition outraged the Congress, which in March 1867 passed the Reconstruction Act that imposed its will on the South by diktat.
Abraham Lincoln then Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson.