British Origins and American Practice of Impeachment

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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• Direito constitucional e administrativo
• Chefes políticos e chefia
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Direito comparativo

parliamentary procedure;legislative oversight;removal powers;executive accountability;political institutions history;legal reform processes;comparative impeachment mechanisms