Article II of the U.S. Constitution When the fathers of this country were writing the document that was later to be known as "the most perfect document", they were designing the framework of how the country's government would operate. One of their priorities was to create a system that consisted of branches of government, with each branch having some kind of power to check the others. This would keep the power balanced. Article II …
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…post. These include bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. In concluding, Article II of the Constitution lays out the specific plans as to how the executive branch of the government should function. The men who wrote it 200 years ago thought of almost of everything, and the few ideas they forgot were later added by the 12th and 25th Amendments. Article II is specifically laid out for a President to run this country successfully.