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...Robert S. Rankin Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 IMPEACHMENTS AND POLITICS ROBERT S. RANKIN OF ALL the constitutional guarantees given to the people that officers of the government shall never become ty­ rants, there is none more interesting than the process impeachment...

...Herbert A. Johnson Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Impeachment and Politics Herbert A. Johnson February of 1805 was an unusually cold month in the District of Columbia; snow had covered the ground for nearly two months and the broad expanse of the Potomac River had been frozen...

...Felipe Magalhães In 2016, the progressive government of the Workers’ Party in Brazil came to a halt through a highly contested impeachment process that gave way to an aggressive policy switch toward a hardline neoliberal fix. This article addresses the conjuncture of the many trajectories that led...

...Rodrigo Nunes This article looks at Brazilian films from two periods—the late 1960s and the last three years—in order to compare the ways in which they elaborate two moments of defeat for the Left: the 1964 military coup against João Goulart and the 2016 impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Its focus...

... appearances by movement leaders, these protests brought millions of Brazilian citizens to the streets in a wave of protests that eventually sparked Dilma's impeachment in May 2016. Deploying the conceptual framework of right‐wing Leninism, this article argues that conservative groups like the MBL are able...

... of the Watergate break-in. With that quick exchange the President was impeachable. He had crossed the line, like so many of his lieutenants, without quite know­ ing what he was doing. Not purposeful crime, but worse, the thought­ less abuse of power. The habit, the atmosphere, the chemistry of his White House had...

.... Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Pp. xxx, 496. $12.00. As the editor of this volume notes, there is little in Burke s extant papers for the 1780 s on subjects other than the Hastings impeachment. Burke s mind and energies were increasingly absorbed by this prosecu­ tion; and the reader who...

... with the assistance of P. J. Marshall. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Pp. xxx, 496. $12.00. As the editor of this volume notes, there is little in Burke s extant papers for the 1780 s on subjects other than the Hastings impeachment. Burke s mind and energies were increasingly absorbed...

.... This occurred in August, and the President s action was made the basis of the articles of impeachment instituted against him by the House of Representatives. On December 4, 1867, there was organized at Washington the Patrons of Husbandry, or Farmers Grange, the forerunner of numerous associations of its kind...

.... This occurred in August, and the President s action was made the basis of the articles of impeachment instituted against him by the House of Representatives. On December 4, 1867, there was organized at Washington the Patrons of Husbandry, or Farmers Grange, the forerunner of numerous associations of its kind...

... and consequently did considerable shifting before it eventually supported a modified suffrage. The Herald at first believed impossible the plan for the Presi­ dent s impeachment; later it seemed to expect and almost to wish it; still later it thought Stanton rather than Johnson should be impeached; finally...

... is to be the guardian of the people let him be appointed by the people. If he is to be a check on the Legislature let him not be impeachable, as he would then be the tool of a faction, of some leading demagogue in the Legislature. . . . Let him be of short duration, that he may with propriety be re-eligible...

... offered by others and rejecting each of the definitions, Professor Belknap offers his own tentative working definition : One may properly apply the term political trial to any trial or impeachment that immediately affects or is intended to affect the structure, personnel, or policies of government...

... with the author that the South made a great mistake in not accepting the Four­ teenth Amendment. To the student of the period it does not seem otherwise than natural that a lack of confidence should have existed among the Southern people, for a Congress whose leaders discussed the impeachment of Justices...

... was of such minor consideration with its editors that its opinions created scarcely a ripple on the great sea of public opinion. The Daily News lost interest in the chief Executive when it saw he could not be allied with the Democrats and thereafter gave scant space to his reconstruction program or his impeachment...

..., and the Wolfson story demonstrated the perils of cronyism. It also allowed Nixon to appoint Warren Burger. Kohlmeier described the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the impeachment charges against Justice Doug­ las, and the battles with the A.B.A. resulting in the nominations of Powell and Rehnquist...

... not become politically fruitful. Indeed the impeachment was becoming destructive of party unity, for it was forcing many members of the House to divide on principle against the leaders of the party whom they normally followed. The split in the Whig Opposition, which was intensified and broadened...

... than the old. . . . This has been going on now for two years, and though in the course of things it is inevitable that Samson will be beaten, one must admit that he has put up a game fight. Clemenceau reports the impeachment trial of Johnson at great length, and nowhere does he more clearly reveal his...

... be considered white, fined ministers who knowingly performed mixed marriages, and required that the birth of any legitimate child of such unions be reported immediately to the attorney-general who would institute criminal proceedings. If he did not, then he was subject to impeachment. Ironically, after this web...

... during the trial on a similar charge of James Thompson Callender, impeachment proceedings, charging misconduct, and rude, contemptuous, and indecent demeanor during a trial, were instituted against him. In the Cooper trial, while bearing himself with a reserve in marked contrast with his conduct...