Impeachment and stability

George Washington Law Review

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 699-708

  Sunstein, Cass R ^a  

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References (31)

1. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 4.
2. 2 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787, at 64 (Max Farrand ed., rev. ed. 1937).
3. Id.
4. Id. at 65.
5. Id.
6. Id. at 66.
7. Id. at 67.
8. Id. at 66.
9. Id. at 68.
10. Id. at 69.
11. Id. at 499.
12. Id. at 550.
13. Id.
14. Id.
15. See id. at 551.
16. THE FEDERALIST No. 65, at 396 (Alexander Hamilton) (Clinton Rossiter ed., 1961).
17. 2 THE FOUNDERS' CONSTITUTION 165 (Philip B. Kurland & Ralph Lerner eds., 1987).
18. Id.
19. Id. at 166.
20. Id. at 179.
21. See RAOUL BERGER, IMPEACHMENT: THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS (1974), which turns largely on this claim.
22. See PETER CHARLES HOFFER & N.E.H. HULL, IMPEACHMENT IN AMERICA, 1635-1805 266-70 (1984). Hoffer and Hull examine state practices and show that impeachment was relatively common in the colonies and the states. This practice does not, however, show that impeachment of the President was intended to be relatively common, and I do not understand Hoffer and Hull to have so argued.
23. BERGER, supra note 21, at 61 (emphasis in original).
24. See id. at 63.
25. See id. at 67-68.
26. See id. at 69-73.
27. HOUSE COMM. ON THE JUDICIARY, IMPEACHMENT OF RICHARD M. NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, H.R. REP. No. 93-1305, at 2 (1974).
28. Id. at 3.
29. Id. at 4.
30. Aaron Xavier Fellmeth, A Divorce Waiting to Happen: Franklin Roosevelt and the Law of Neutrality, 1935-1941, 3 BUFF. J. INT'L L. 413, 486 (1996-97).
31. U.S. CONST. art. 3, § 1.