The Federal Impeachment Process – A Constitutional & Historical Analysis 2e: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis - Softcover

Gerhardt, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226289575 ISBN 13: 9780226289571

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Synopsis

Throughout President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, the contending sides agreed on very little. One exception was "The Federal Impeachment Process" - the most complete analysis of the constitutional and legal issues raised in every impeachment proceeding in American history. In this edition, Michael Gerhardt draws on his experience as a commentator and expert witness to examine the likely political and constitutional consequences of President Clinton's impeachment and trial. Placing the President's acquital in historical perspective, he argues that it fits easily within the impeachment process as it has evolved over the past two centuries. Impeachment, he shows, is an inherently political process designed to expose and remedy political crimes. Subject neither to judicial review nor to presidential veto, it is a unique congressional power that involves both political and constitutional considerations, including the gravity of the offence charged, the harm to the constitutional order and the link between an official's misconduct and duties. Significantly expanded and updated, this book should be a standard work on the federal impeachment process for years to come.

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Review

"Lucid and thoughtfully argued.... [This] is a timely and well-researched book that should be of great interest to a broad audience of political scientists, legal scholars, historians and students of the federal judicial process."--The Law and Politics Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226289575
• ISBN 13: 9780226289571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 268