The Constitution limits governmental powers and ensures that no particular branch has more power than the other...MoMMy.! :)
Article II, Section 2. paragraph 1 of the US Constitution allows the President to grant pardons for crimes against the US Government, not involving impeachment. Incoming President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on 8 August 1974, the day before Nixon's resignation on 9 August 1974.
Watergate
President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, ushered in the period of detente. Brinksmanship had led to crisis after crisis for decades, the last being the Vietnam War. Failure in Southeast Asia led Nixon to aim for a level of peace with the Soviet Union.
Nixon was accused of alot of things... But what caused him to resign, and the largest thing, was the Watergate-Scandal. This caused him to resign.
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Nixon had a shortage of morals. He was very bright and driven, but he had trouble telling right from wrong. He never was able to overcome his problem.
Distrust the goverment
Distrust the goverment
The Watergate scandal rocked President Richard Nixon's Administration.
The environmental protection movement was supported by public.
Nixon was elected president and he had to follow the boundaries within the constitution. He did not have a coup to become president as your question assumes.