Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005). This essay appeared in Backbencher from Timothy Noah.
The Divine Right of Wingnuts
Harvard’s Eric Nelson stokes a loopy monarchist movement in America.
Why Impeaching a Former President Wouldn’t Have Surprised the Founders
What the British Parliament’s 1787 impeachment of a colonial governor tells us about whether the Senate can try Donald Trump.
No, Thomas Jefferson Didn’t Rig the 1800 Vote Count
Sorry, Trump dead-enders. You should have read that law review article to the end.