Catalog

Details

• ISBN: 9781108481052
• Physical Description: xiv, 465 pages.print
• Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, c2019.
• Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Formatted Contents Note: How to interpret the constitution's impeachment clauses -- British impeachments (1376-1787) -- American impeachments before 1787 -- The founders' impeachment -- Impeaching legislators & lesser executive branch officials -- Impeachment of judges -- The impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- The fall of President Richard Nixon -- The strange case of William Jefferson Clinton -- The scope of impeachable presidential conduct : general principles -- Impeachment for obstruction of justice -- Impeachment for abuse of the pardon power -- Impeachment for lying -- Impeachment for corruption : schemes of peculation, the emoluments clauses, and the avaricious president -- The Twenty-Fifth Amendment as an alternative to impeachment -- Impeaching Donald Trump.

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