《弹劾》 / Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide

《弹劾》 is the Cass Sunstein book used as the main reference in 173.弹劾：如何罢免一位总统. The episode presents the book as a guide to what [[PresidentialImpeachment|presidential impeachment]] is for, why the U.S. standard is intentionally difficult, and why impeachment should not be confused with ordinary criminal liability or parliamentary no-confidence politics.

The book’s source role is conceptual rather than merely historical. It supplies the episode’s central formula: impeachment is for constitutional system repair when a president abuses office, betrays public trust, or threatens the republican structure created by the United States Constitution.

Source Position

• The book is used to explain why “bad president” is not enough for impeachment.
• It frames High Crimes And Misdemeanors around high office, serious abuse, and public trust rather than any technical crime.
• It gives the episode historical cases and classroom-style hypotheticals for distinguishing private wrongdoing, policy error, incapacity, and constitutional betrayal.

Connections

• Cass Sunstein - author and guiding interpreter in the episode.
• Presidential Impeachment, High Crimes And Misdemeanors, and Twenty-Fifth Amendment - main legal concepts discussed through the book.
• United States Constitution and Separation Of Powers - constitutional machinery the book helps explain.
• Constitutional Robustness - episode-level synthesis built from the book’s repair-frame.