High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Presidential Impeachment

High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Presidential Impeachment

Author: H. Brown

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-01-04

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230102255

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US Constitution states that the President is subject to removal from office upon impeachment and conviction of treason, bribery and 'other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.' In this book, Brown examines history behind this clause as well as the impeachments of Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Clinton.


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Report

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 452

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Author: Dave Tell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0271060220

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.