Johnson was impeached on several grounds, including his violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which forbade the president from removing civil officers without the consent of the Senate.
Believing that the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional, Johnson ignored it.
At the same time, to further ensure the success of Radical Reconstruction, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act.
The dismissal was a violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which Congress had passed a year earlier specifically to protect Mr. Stanton.
The Tenure of Office Act was repealed partly in 1869 and entirely in 1887 and was also declared by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926 to have been unconstitutional.
Tenure of Office Act, (March 2 , 1867, in the post-Civil War period of U.S. history, law forbidding the president to remove civil officers without senatorial consent.
After attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, in violation of the new Tenure of Office Act, Johnson had been impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868.
Both Turton and Kane said they were at the "very beginning stages" of the pardon process and had requested the foreign office act on their behalf.
In contrast, the Post Office Act of 1792, with a broad civic mandate, vastly expanded the postal network while admitting newspapers into the mail at an extremely low rate.
Nonetheless, Congress enacted a law that it called the Tenure of Office Act, which was specifically designed to forbid the President from removing certain executive officials, including the Secretary of War, without the Senate's approval.
