Federalist 65

August 30, 2018|Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 51, Federalist 65, high crimes and misdemeanors, Impeachment, James Madison

The Constitutional Categories of Impeachable Offenses

by Michael Stokes Paulsen|5 Comments

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Impeachment was designed with the idea in mind that presidents sometimes might warrant removal from office, and this might flow from many causes.

August 15, 2018|Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 65, Federalist 66, Federalist 79, Federalist 81, Impeachment

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, and the Power of Impeachment

by Michael Stokes Paulsen|8 Comments

Statue of Alexander Hamilton at U.S. Treasury Department, by James Frasier (Image: Bill Perry/Shutterstock.com).

What was controversial and what needed defending in The Federalist essays on impeachment was placing the power in the Senate, not the power itself.

June 28, 2018|Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 65, high crimes and misdemeanors, Impeachment, President Andrew Johnson, President Richard Nixon, President Trump

Taking Impeachment Seriously

by Michael Stokes Paulsen|7 Comments

George T. Brown, sergeant at arms of the Senate, serving the summons on President Andrew Johnson, from Harper's Weekly, March 28, 1868. Courtesy Library of Congress

The framers of the Constitution understood impeachment as a vital, potent legislative check on abuse or misuse of power or other serious misconduct.

July 14, 2014|Federalist 65, Impeachment

Defining Impeachment Up

by Greg Weiner|5 Comments

The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Jer123 / Shutterstock.com).

Impeachment is a wrenching process used only the worst of constitutional sins, and only when the populace can be brought along.

Reason and Rhetoric

by Mary P. Nichols

We must rediscover how Aristotle’s Rhetoric brings light into what Socrates saw as the political “cave.”

On Freedom, Paternalism, and Power

by Guido Pincione

Nudgers must then be endowed with significant interpretive leeway when it comes to setting priorities. Is this freedom?

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