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Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide QUOTES

1 " The idea of “great and dangerous offenses” is an excellent shorthand for the views of the ratifiers—at least if we understand such offenses as including egregious abuses or misuses of official authority. "

― Cass R. Sunstein , Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide

2 " The American constitutional order is meant to create a deliberative democracy, in which debate and discussion accompany accountability. This is not merely a system of majority rule, through which majorities get to do as they like simply because they are majorities. Reason-giving is central, and a deliberative democracy gives reasons. "

― Cass R. Sunstein , Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide

3 " The French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld proclaimed: “Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”7 If the Rule of Law sometimes produces hypocrisy, at least we know what counts as vice and what counts as virtue. "

― Cass R. Sunstein , Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide