The Better Know the Impeachment Process Post 11.11.19
From Phillip Bobbitt's preface to the New Edition about the importance of Black's work:
From Phillip Bobbitt's preface to the New Edition about the importance of Black's work:
Allowing Black’s book to gather dust on the library shelves would be far more than simply a loss for the literature on impeachment, which in any case would build on his insights. It would remove a foundation stone from the intellectual edifice that is perhaps the most important advance made in constitutional law during my lifetime: the development of what might be called the “standard model” that enables legislators, citizens, and journalists as well as judges to resolve constitutional questions when there is no authoritative judicial precedent, and to assess judicial opinions when there is a precedent. Black’s tour de force is as important to this development as Weinberg and Salam’s equations are to the Standard Model in physics.
Black, Charles L., Jr. & Bobbitt, Phillip Impeachment A Handbook, New Edition, Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.
