Lessons from Trump’s second impeachment
It took a couple of centuries before the promise made in Declaration of Independence could be realised
The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank
There are good reasons why citizens of a country such as Pakistan should follow and possibly learn from the constitutional struggles being waged in the United States at this time. The American Constitution was written and adopted in 1788 by what were then the 13 colonies of Great Britain. They rebelled against the British crown then worn by King George III and took up arms to fight the colonial power. A rag tag army headed by General George Washington fought a series of wars and was able to prevail even though the British brought reinforcements recruited as mercenaries from Germany. A group of politically influential figures assembled in Philadelphia, then the largest American city, and wrote and approved a number of documents. Among them
the world, was an improvisation. so fascinating and such a wide range of voices that contributed to this. i m not sure how you went about choosing. you have jackie robinson s wife and marco rubio and malala. we wanted to do everything we possibly could do to get perspective on that march and speech and so we talked to a lot of people that were there. one of the nice things is that it was 50 years ago and it was a very different country, of course. the position of blacks in america at that time. when you think back to the fact that there was still segregation on buses, people trying to get to washington and they can t travel freely across america. we wanted those perspectives from that day and we re lucky that a lot of the people involved in that movement were very young. john lewis was 23 years old. amazing. amazing. lincoln memorial. those people happily are still with us. on the other hand, we wanted to also hear from contemporary