British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment

ISBN-13: 9781032187259 / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Opis

This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. It explores the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history, the adoption of impeachment within the US Constitution, and impeachment in the 21st century.

Recenzje

‘This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study of impeachment is essential reading for scholars, citizens, and public officials alike. Now more than ever, it is vital to appreciate the promise and perils of the impeachment power, and to reckon with its proper role in constitutional democracy.’

Joshua Matz, Partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP; Impeachment Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the first (2019-20) and second (2021)Senate trial of President Trump

Spis treści

Preface;  Foreword;  1. Impeachment Matters;  PART I. BRITISH ORIGINS;  2. Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and its abeyance in the Sixteenth Century;  3. Impeachment in Seventeenth-Century England;  4. British Politics and Impeachment in the Eighteenth Century;  5. Edmund Burke, India, and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings;  6. The Nineteenth Century and Beyond:  The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment;  7. ‘Impeachment’ in Irish Constitutional Law;  PART II. AMERICAN PRACTICE;  8. Impeachment in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Early United States;  9. Parallel Evolution: American Impeachment and the Two-Party System;  10. Impeachment, Responsibility, and Constitutional Failure: From Watergate to January 6;  11. The US Impeachment Process: Fit for Purpose in a Hyper-Partisan Era?;  PART III. EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS;  12. The Renaissance of Impeachment - political and legal accountability in the 21st century

O autorze

Chris Monaghan 

Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre at the University of Sheffield.