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Impeachment : a citizen's guide / Cass R. Sunstein.
LIBRA KF5075 .S84 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sunstein, Cass R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impeachments--United States.
- Impeachments.
- Presidents--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- Presidents--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Impeachments--United States​.
- Local Subjects:
- Presidents--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Impeachments--United States​.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Cass Sunstein considers actual and imaginable arguments for a president's removal, explaining why some cases are easy and others hard, why some arguments for impeachment are judicious and others not. In direct and approachable terms, he dispels the fog surrounding impeachment so that all Americans may use their ultimate civic authority wisely"-- Provided by publisher.
- As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty - a route rarely traveled - is impeachment. Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen's guide to an essential tool of self-government. He illuminates the constitutional design behind impeachment and emphasizes the people's role in holding presidents accountable. Despite intense interest in the subject, impeachment is widely misunderstood. For example, he shows that the Constitution, not the House of Representatives, establishes grounds for impeachment, and that the president can be impeached for abuses of power that do not violate the law. Even neglect of duty counts among the "high crimes and misdemeanors" delineated in the republic's foundational document. Sunstein describes how impeachment helps make sense of our constitutional order, particularly the framers' controversial decision to install an empowered executive in a nation deeply fearful of kings. With an eye toward the past and the future, Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide considers a host of actual and imaginable arguments for a president's removal, explaining why some cases are easy and others hard, why some arguments for impeachment have been judicious and others not. In direct and approachable terms, it dispels the fog surrounding impeachment so that Americans of all political convictions may use their ultimate civic authority wisely. -- from back cover.
- Contents:
- Majesty and mystery
- From king to president
- "Shall any man be above justice?"
- What We the People heard
- Interpreting the Constitution : an interlude
- Impeachment, American-style
- Twenty-one cases
- The Twenty-fifth Amendment
- What every American should know
- Keeping the republic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674983793
- 0674983793
- OCLC:
- 991351565
- Publisher Number:
- 99974969504
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