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British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment
This collection brings together historians, political scientists and legal scholars to explore the Anglo-American origins of impeachment and its use in the USA. Impeachment originated in England during the Good Parliament of 1376. It was used, subject to several periods of disuse, until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The British form of impeachment in turn inspired the drafters of the US Constitution and the inclusion of a mechanism permitting the removal of members of the federal executive and federal judiciary. These Anglo-American origins of impeachment have inspired many constitutions around the globe to include impeachment mechanisms which permit, in most cases, the legislatur...
The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning p...
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The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States
"The impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; the complete record of the impeachment in the House of Representatives, the preliminary proceedings in the Senate, the articles of impeachment, and the full proceedings in the court of impeachment of the Senate of the United States.".
