Turnley Walker

Impeachment of a President

Thaddeus Stevens leads the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868.

The Right of Petition

John Quincy Adams and Thomas Marshall clash over a gag rule preventing antislavery petitions to be introduced in the House.

Democracy – Equality or Privilege

Covers the disagreements between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s on how our new government should be conducted.

States' Rights

The film documents Andrew Jackson’s fight with John C. Calhoun over a tariff law in 1832.

The Right of Dissent

Should a private citizen have the right to criticize the president, as shown in the story of John Adams vs. Matthew Lyon, 1798.