This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. It explores the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history, the adoption of impeachment within the US Constitution, and impeachment in the 21st century.
This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. It explores the history of impeachment and how it developed in British history, the adoption of impeachment within the US Constitution, and impeachment in the 21st century.
Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester,UK. Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre at the University of Sheffield, UK.
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List of Contributors xi Preface xii Foreword xiv 1 Impeachment Matters 1 MATTHEW FLINDERS AND CHRIS MONAGHAN PART 1 British Origins 15 2 Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Its Abeyance in the Sixteenth Century 17 CHRIS MONAGHAN 3 Impeachment in Seventeenth-Century England 42 MARK GOLDIE 4 British Politics and Impeachment in the Eighteenth Century 64 ROBIN EAGLES 5 Edmund Burke, India and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings 84 MITHI MUKHERJEE 6 The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment 114 CHRIS MONAGHAN 7 'Impeachment' in Irish Constitutional Law 132 LAURA CAHILLANE AND TOM HICKEY PART 2 American Practice 155 8 Impeachment in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Early United States 157 JOHN R VILE 9 Parallel Evolution: American Impeachment and the Two-Party System 180 BRIAN C KALT 10 Impeachment, Responsibility and Constitutional Failure: From Watergate to January 6 206 JACK N RAKOVE 11 The US Impeachment Process: Fit for Purpose in a Hyper-Partisan Era? 238 CLODAGH HARRINGTON AND ALEX WADDAN PART 3 Evolutionary Dynamics 259 12 The Renaissance of Impeachment: Political and Legal Accountability in the 21st Century 261 DAN PLESCH Index 271
List of Contributors xi Preface xii Foreword xiv 1 Impeachment Matters 1 MATTHEW FLINDERS AND CHRIS MONAGHAN PART 1 British Origins 15 2 Impeachment during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Its Abeyance in the Sixteenth Century 17 CHRIS MONAGHAN 3 Impeachment in Seventeenth-Century England 42 MARK GOLDIE 4 British Politics and Impeachment in the Eighteenth Century 64 ROBIN EAGLES 5 Edmund Burke, India and the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings 84 MITHI MUKHERJEE 6 The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Existence of the Threat of Impeachment 114 CHRIS MONAGHAN 7 'Impeachment' in Irish Constitutional Law 132 LAURA CAHILLANE AND TOM HICKEY PART 2 American Practice 155 8 Impeachment in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in the Early United States 157 JOHN R VILE 9 Parallel Evolution: American Impeachment and the Two-Party System 180 BRIAN C KALT 10 Impeachment, Responsibility and Constitutional Failure: From Watergate to January 6 206 JACK N RAKOVE 11 The US Impeachment Process: Fit for Purpose in a Hyper-Partisan Era? 238 CLODAGH HARRINGTON AND ALEX WADDAN PART 3 Evolutionary Dynamics 259 12 The Renaissance of Impeachment: Political and Legal Accountability in the 21st Century 261 DAN PLESCH Index 271
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