impeachment

is based on impeachable offenses. And what is an impeachable offense? whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

1s 2rosecution will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.

is based chiefly on injuries done immediately to the society itself.

is based on offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

is genius in that it is capable of punishing the man without punishing the office.

is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

is an act that need neither require an actual crime, and is primarily about gross neglect or abuse of power. That’s central, Sunstein said, because it makes clear two important points about when impeachment is proper: First, it need not require an actual crime; and second, it is primarily about gross neglect or abuse of power.

How to structure it, though? Roger Sherman’s suggestion of a Senate that could impeach a president for any reason was rejected for making the presidency too precarious. A counterproposal allowing for impeachment in cases of “maladministration” was found to be too vague. There’s no record of further discussion of the final terms at the convention, but in the Federalist Papers, Hamilton offered some clarification, writing that impeachable offenses were those that concerned “the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.”

is based on impeachable offenses, which concern the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a political nature, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself.

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