Late Impeachment: An In-Depth Account of the Belknap Trial - (Part Two)
Part 2: The History of the Word “Impeachment” This is the second part of a four‐part series on the 1876 impeachment trial of former Secretary of War William Belknap. In each part, I will examine a different category of argument made at that trial on the question whether the Senate has constitutional jurisdiction to try and convict a former officer. In Part 1, I summarized the arguments at the trial based on constitutional text. In this part, I turn to the arguments based on the history and meaning of the word “impeachment” and the English practice of impeachment prior to ...
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