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Date: February 23, 2007 11:15:02 PM PST
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Subject: The Cure
http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Impeachment-Founders-Cure-Royalism/dp/
1595581405/sr=1-1/qid=1160319793/ref=sr_1_1/104-3068756-8551945?
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Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Arguing that regular elections are an insufficient democratic
guardian against corrupt officeholders, Nichols, a writer for the
liberal journal the Nation, exhorts his readers to support an
impeachment of President George Bush. The impediment, as Nichols
assesses current affairs, is not doubt that Bush (and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair) by invading Iraq deserves this constitutional
ejection from office but the wariness of politicians on the Left to
consider the procedure.
Nichols rejects the view that impeachment is unrealistic in the
course of surveying the history of the impeachment power, citing
cases from England, commentaries about the U.S. Constitution, and
the impeachment proceedings against Nixon. Substantively slight on
constitutional analysis of the war power, this work relies on its
power-to-the-people persona for its appeal, which may extend past
the moment should Democratic victory in the November elections
augment the author's advocacy.
Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
A sharp and eye-opening argument that impeachment is an essential
American institution.
This surprising and irreverent book by one of America's leading
political reporters makes the case that impeachment is much more
than a legal and congressional process — it is an essential
instrument of America's democratic system. Articles of impeachment
have been brought 62 times in American history. Thomas Jefferson
himself forwarded the evidence for impeachment of the first federal
official to be removed under the process — John Pickering in 1803.
Impeachment is as American as apple pie.
The founders designed impeachment as one of the checks against
executive power. As John Nichols reveals in this fascinating look
at impeachment's hidden history, impeachment movements —in addition
to congressional proceedings themselves— have played an important
role in countering an out-of-control executive branch. The threat
of impeachment has worked to temper presidential excesses and to
reassert democratic values in times of national drift.
The Genius of Impeachment also makes clear that we sorely need such
a movement today, and that both the president and vice president
deserve impeachment.
In the spirit of maverick congressmember Henry B. Gonzalez, who
introduced articles of impeachment against both George H.W. Bush
and Ronald Reagan for making war without a declaration, this book
is a fearless call to Americans to hold our leaders accountable to
democracy.
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