Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Enlarged Edition / Edition 2

by Raoul Berger

Overview

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. Raoul 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. In an addition to the book, Berger finds firm footing in contesting the views of one-time Judge Robert Bork and President Nixon’s lawyer, James St. Clair.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674444782
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	Studies in Legal History
Edition description:	Enlarged
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Raoul Berger was Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at Harvard Law School.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

The Parliamentary Power to Declare Retrospective Treasons

"High Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Judicial Review

Exclusivity of Impeachment and Judicial "Good Behavior" Tenure

Insanity-Disability-Senility

Is Removal Limited to Misconduct in Office?

Exemption of Legislators from Impeachment

The Impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase

The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix A. Theodore Dwight's Indictability Citations

Appendix B. Luther Martin's Indictability Citations

Appendix C. Early English Bribery Statutes

Appendix D. Congressman David Stone on "Good Behavior" and Impeachment (1802)

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Cases

What People are Saying About This

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Washington Post Book Review

The best book on the unthinkable subject we are all thinking about.

New York Times

An admirable and powerful work...valuable and illuminating.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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.-- "Washington Post Book Review"

The best book on the unthinkable subject we are all thinking about.-- "New York Times"

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

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