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Definition:
The process of impeachment is often assumed to simply refer to removing someone from
office after they have broken laws or ethical rules, but that is not the case.
Impeachment is instead the enactment of a process by which an elected
government official might be removed from office, even if such a removal never
actually occurs.
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What are Political and Legal Philosophy
The Philosophy of Politics and the Philosophy of Law are often studied separately, but they are presented here jointly because they both come back to the same thing: the study of force. Politics is the study of political force in the general community, while jurisprudence is the study of how laws can and should be used to achieve political and social goals.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
