Episode 61 - Impeachment 101

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. - En podkast av John Fea

Are you watching Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial? Are you trying to make sense of it all? We want to help. In this episode we talk with CNN presidential historian and Southern Methodist University professor Jeffrey Engel on the history of impeachment. Engel sheds light on the debates over impeachment in the Constitutional Convention, the historic meaning of "bribery" and "high crimes and misdemeanors," and the inevitable political and partisan nature of American impeachments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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