First Thoughts on the Failure of an Impeachment
We all learn it well from early youth on up – there are three branches of government, and through a system of checks and balances none of them are able to dominate the others. The idea of dividing up the power in a political system and then establishing ways for the constituent parts to restrain one another has a long history. Thus, in the Roman Republic there were the people, the senate, and the magistrates, each of which was situated…