America, Politics in America “Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of government itself” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 Every impeachment reinvents what impeachment is for, and what it means, a theory of...
America, Politics in America “Because impeachment happens so infrequently, it’s hard to draw conclusions about what it does, or even how it works, and, on each occasion, people spend a lot of time fighting over the meaning of the words and the nature of the crimes” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The U.S. Senate has held only eighteen impeachment trials in two hundred and thirty...
America, Politics in America “To believe that Presidents can do anything they like is to give up on self-government” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 In 1787, the delegates in Philadelphia narrowed their list down to “Treason & bribery,...
America, England, Politics in America “The ‘high’ in ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ has its origins in phrases that include the ‘certain high treasons and offenses and misprisons’ invoked in the impeachment of the Duke of Suffolk” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The “high” in “high crimes and misdemeanors” has its origins in phrases that include...
England, Politics in America “all but one of England’s original thirteen American colonies had been founded before impeachment went out of style” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 April 2021 The Englishman responsible for bringing the ancient practice of impeachment back into use was...
Politics in America “…impeachment had all but vanished from English practice when American delegates to the Constitutional Convention provided for it…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 November 2019 Impeachment is an ancient relic, a rusty legal instrument and political weapon first wielded...