Anyone who has studied history even casually knows of the previous impeachments of Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. Now the violent storming of the Capitol has led to a second impeachment of President Trump.
To put the recent events in context, we teamed up with James Banner and dozens of other historians to create an extraordinary issue of American Heritage that provides a broad look at Presidential misbehavior over 230 years of the Republic. Professor Banner is the editor of Presidential Misconduct published by The New Press, which details misconduct in every Presidential administration since George Washington. We have also asked eleven historians to provide assessments of Donald Trump's presidency and recent actions.
Readers will get a deeper appreciation for the Constitutional system of checks and balances when they see how the branches of government struggled to define their respective responsibilities and discharge their duties over the years. They invented an entirely new form of government as they did.
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