In this Wonderlust lecture, Dr. Nicol Rae, political scientist and Dean of the MSU College of Letters and Sciences, reviews and discusses the presidential impeachment power in the US Constitution and how it has played out over our history. Why did the framers give Congress the power to impeach and remove presidents? What are the criteria they set forth for this drastic action? What’s the history of our three presidential impeachments – and what are  the political and governmental implications of the current impeachment proceedings? Dr. Rae asks whether we might now be living in an age of “symbolic impeachment.”

Recorded on January 10, 2020 at the Bozeman Public Library.