White Paper #4 constitution

This was my first time ever actually reading the U.S. Constitution. In school we learned about the preamble along with the 27 amendments, but never addressed what the rest of the constitution has written. The Constitution in Article I Section 2 mentions that “The House of Representatives… shall have the sole Power of Impeachment” but does not expand on the process of impeachment or defines clearly what that exactly means. I thought the Constitution would describe how the whole process should look like and under what circumstances can an elected official be impeached. The impeachment process seems to be very difficult and specific, yet none of that is explained during this section of the Constitution.  The only part that is explained is when the President is being held on trial, but not about what happens before the hearing.

            When reading Article II in the Constitution, the way I understand the election of the Vice President, they have as if their own election but on the same ballot as the presidential candidate. The Constitution states in Article II Section I states, “In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice-President” meaning that the Vice President is also voted on. This process seems to have changed over time since now the presidential candidate seems to select their own vice president candidate to run with them in the elections. For example, if someone in the 2016 election were to have selected Donald Trump to be president, they would also have selected his running mate, Mike Pence, to be vice president.