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Impeachment : a citizen's guide / Cass R. Sunstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sunstein, Cass R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impeachments--United States.
- Impeachments.
- Presidents--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Presidents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 1. Majesty and Mystery
- 2. From King to President
- 3. “Shall Any Man Be Above Justice?”
- 4. What We the People Heard
- 5. Interpreting the Constitution: An Interlude
- 6. Impeachment, American-Style
- 7. Twenty-One Cases
- 8. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment
- 9. What Every American Should Know
- 10. Keeping the Republic
- Bibliographical Note
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-98419-6
- 0-674-98418-8
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