On Impeachment: The Presidency on Trial (Penguin Liberty)

A brief, accessible assortment of key historic writings about presidential impeachment, as a part of a brand new Penguin Classics sequence on liberty and constitutional rights.

A Penguin Basic

Penguin Liberty is a newly curated sequence of historic, political and authorized traditional texts from Penguin Classics. One of many first volumes, On Impeachment, offers key historic writings to grasp what impeachment is and study three presidents who’ve been topic to the method: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Invoice Clinton. The quantity contains important texts from every of the 2 presidential impeachments that have been voted by the Home, and the Nixon case, which was voted on by the Home judiciary committee and which compelled Nixon’s resignation. Readers could have a scope of views from the Structure, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, Barbara Jordan, Gerald Ford, Dianne Feinstein, and extra. Every quantity will characteristic a sequence introduction and quantity introduction by sequence editor Corey Brettschneider.

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