Impeachment Is a Refusal to Accept the Unacceptable

Impeachment Is a Refusal to Accept the Unacceptable

In 1838, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech on “the perpetuation of our political institutions“—better known today as the Lyceum Address. Dwelling on the threats facing the American political structure, he argued that the United States was protected from foreign invasion. The description of the United States as a “nation of freemen” three decades before emancipation was a bit of a stretch.