Singular Proceeding or Divided Judgment? Principles of Impeachment in the Humphreys and Belknap Cases

• In Event: Constitutional Origins and Interpretation

Brief Overview

Using Senate records in two nineteenth-century impeachment trials, this paper examines Senators' competing views of the Impeachment Clause, its textual meaning and purpose, as well as attendant separation-of-powers implications.

Author

• Andy J. Carr, The New School