Impeachment – The Constitutional Problems - Softcover

Berger, R

 
9780674444768: Impeachment – The Constitutional Problems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674444760 ISBN 13: 9780674444768
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

The little understood yet volcanic power of impeachment lodged in the Congress is dissected through history by the nation's leading legal scholar on the subject. Berger offers authoritative insight into "high crimes and misdemeanors" He sheds new light on whether impeachment is limited to indictable crimes, on whether there is jurisdiction to impeach for misconduct outside of office, and on whether impeachment must precede indictment.

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Review

Originally published in 1974 at the time of the Nixon crisis, this erudite book by a legal scholar offers authoritative insight into all aspects of impeachment.

An admirable and powerful work...valuable and illuminating.--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

About the Author

Raoul Berger was Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at the Harvard Law School. Among his books is Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1974
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674444760
ISBN 13 
9780674444768
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
412

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