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impeach as in:  impeach the President

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  • How, in fact, could a majority in the House of Representatives impeach themselves?   (source)
  • I intend to impeach you for making use of the powers entrusted to you for your own private ends   (source)
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impeach as in:  impeach her testimony

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  • The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn't wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.   (source)
    impeached = challenged (the truth of something)
  • You impeach my sober judgment and make my canons of little worth.   (source)
  • They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats.   (source)
    unimpeachably = in a way that cannot be challenged
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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impeach as in:  impeach my courage

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  • If my old friend Reepicheep the Mouse were here, he would say we could not now refuse the adventures of Bism without a great impeachment to our honour.   (source)
    impeachment = criticism (of character)
  • You do impeach your modesty too much   (source)
  • I denounce this person as a liar, and impeach him as a coward.   (source)
  • And ten to one is no impeach of valour.   (source)
  • Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong,   (source)
  • "That is Mr. Baggins, a hobbit of good family and unimpeachable reputation," said Gandalf.   (source)
    unimpeachable = not capable of being criticized
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  •   And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
      Myself condemned and myself excus'd.   (source)
    impeach = criticize
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  • The U.S. Supreme Court has long required that the prosecution disclose to the defendant anything that is exculpatory or that may be helpful to the defendant in impeaching a witness.†   (source)
  • Either way, they should impeach him.†   (source)
  • Impeach Earl Warren it said.†   (source)
  • At the moment, there was little doubt Lanier had full command of the rules regarding witness impeachment.†   (source)
  • I will object to the counsel reading from the statement or using the statement to impeach credibility; reading from the statement is improper, and in fact I object to it on that basis—†   (source)
  • The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'†   (source)
  • In his lifetime he will suffer the ignominy of impeachment and endure the moniker of "worst president in history."†   (source)
  • It looks like we can impeach Julie if she testifies.†   (source)
  • In Maine he is elected Governor by the largest majority in the history of the state and returned to office three times, where he alienates political friends by refusing to agree to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.†   (source)
  • The Constitution makes the chief justice of the Supreme Court the president of the court of impeachment.†   (source)
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  • And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no tittle impeachment of all our honours.†   (source)
  • It had been decided to take the first vote under that broad Eleventh Article of Impeachment, believed to command the widest support.†   (source)
  • Why can't they impeach him?" said Debby LaRocca.†   (source)
  • He dodged impeachment but was not reelected to office in 1868.†   (source)
  • All life is risk, he said, and how could I argue with that except to impeach the word all?†   (source)
  • One part of the legislative body can impeach judges and the other tries them.†   (source)
  • His purpose is to impeach the credibility of another witness, not to give evidence.†   (source)
  • How could a majority in the House of Representatives impeach themselves?†   (source)
  • And Paper #65 showed that this is the most practical way to form an impeachment court.†   (source)
  • An elected government needs a court for the trial of impeachments.†   (source)
  • An impeachment trial requires a very large court.†   (source)
  • The power of the President, in respect to pardons, would extend to all cases except impeachment.†   (source)
  • The Senate acts as a court for the trial of impeachments.†   (source)
  • There can never be strict rules for impeachment trials.†   (source)
  • Second objection: If the Senate is the impeachment court, it will have too much power.†   (source)
  • But he could not shelter an offender from the effects of impeachment and conviction.†   (source)
  • They probably will not be able to impartially judge impeached officials.†   (source)
  • Legislative: Senate: Number 65 — House Impeaches, Senate Tries†   (source)
  • Impeachment powers give the legislature a check on executive encroachments.†   (source)
  • And one legislative house is the impeachment court.†   (source)
  • The House of Commons prefers the impeachment; the House of Lords decides it.†   (source)
  • Number 79: Judiciary: Independence, Salary, Impeachment   (source)
  • The Senate acts as a court for impeachment trials.†   (source)
  • He can be impeached, tried, dismissed from office, and banned from serving in any other.†   (source)
  • Number 65: Senate as Court for Trial of Impeachments   (source)
  • For these reasons, alone, the Supreme Court should not be an impeachment court.†   (source)
  • Number 66: Objections to Senate as Impeachment Court†   (source)
  • Would uniting the Supreme Court with the Senate to form the court of impeachment improve the plan?†   (source)
  • Impeachment powers are divided between the two houses of the legislature.†   (source)
  • The Senate is the impeachment court for members of the executive and judiciary.†   (source)
  • It also is a good argument for making the Senate the court for the trial of impeachments.†   (source)
  • The legislature appoints judges, who can be impeached and removed by the legislature.†   (source)
  • The governor of New York can pardon even impeachment, except for treason and murder.†   (source)
  • Some men object to the Senate acting as the impeachment court, saying it improperly mixes powers.†   (source)
  • Judges have a lifetime appointment and can be impeached and removed from office.†   (source)
  • All imaginable abuse has been heaped upon me by the men and papers devoted to the impeachers.†   (source)
  • His story, like his vote, is the key to the impeachment tragedy.†   (source)
  • Again the wild rumors spread that Ross had been won over on the remaining Articles of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • If he's lying, they should impeach him.†   (source)
  • They should impeach him.†   (source)
  • The Senate, which had openly clashed with Johnson over other key issues, now began impeachment hearings, stating that Johnson did not have the authority to remove the secretary of war.†   (source)
  • What should we say to men who profess a love for republican government, yet boldly impeach the fundamental principle of it?†   (source)
  • Legislature can Impeach Judges†   (source)
  • A designing majority in the House of Representatives could impeach a faithful official, stopping him from performing his duties and exposing him to persecution.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the impeachment court will not convict the person who has been accused by the people's representatives.†   (source)
  • And it will institute impeachments.†   (source)
  • To assure that judges will act responsibly, they can be impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate.†   (source)
  • It also has judicial power in cases of impeachment and is the supreme court of appeals in all other cases.†   (source)
  • There are several objections to the way the court for the trial of impeachments is setup in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • He is authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment."†   (source)
  • The Senate will probably not feel a favorable bias towards an impeached official who was appointed by the President.†   (source)
  • Also, if the Constitution gave the power to try impeachments to the Supreme Court, it would have increased the authority of the judiciary.†   (source)
  • A third objection to the Senate as an impeachment court is based on the Senate's role in the appointments to office.†   (source)
  • Or it would be made up of specific officers of the State governments who would be called upon whenever an impeachment was actually pending.†   (source)
  • A court of impeachments has the awful discretion to doom to honor or infamy the most trusted and distinguished people of the community.†   (source)
  • In New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, one branch of the legislature is the court for the trial of impeachments.†   (source)
  • The President can be impeached, tried, and if convicted of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office.†   (source)
  • The chief executive and his council appoint judges and form an impeachment court for trial of officers, judiciary and executive.†   (source)
  • One house of the legislature and the State's highest judges are its court for appeals and impeachment trials.†   (source)
  • The objectors say that if it is also the court for the trial of impeachments, Senators will have too much influence.†   (source)
  • When an official is impeached and found guilty, his punishment is dismissal from his current office and disqualification from future offices.†   (source)
  • And so far as the fear of punishment and disgrace can operate, the motive for good behavior is supplied by the article on the subject of impeachments.†   (source)
  • And the other house, after an impeachment vote, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department.†   (source)
  • Should the court for the trial of impeachments be composed of persons who are completely distinct from the other departments of the government?†   (source)
  • If one house of the legislature starts the inquiry by impeaching the official, shouldn't the other house be part of the inquiry?†   (source)
  • Those States and Great Britain see impeachment as a bridle in the hands of the legislature on the people in the executive branch of government.†   (source)
  • But even if there is a better way to set up the court for the trial of impeachments, this is not a reason to reject the entire Constitution.†   (source)
  • Some people say that the trial of impeachments by the Senate is wrong: they believe the judiciary should have this power.†   (source)
  • If an impeached official is found guilty, his punishment is perpetual ostracism from the esteem, confidence, honors, and emoluments of his country.†   (source)
  • Treaties, Appointments, Impeachments   (source)
  • But the convention could not suggest impeaching and punishing two-thirds of the Senate, if the Senate agreed to an improper treaty.†   (source)
  • The New York constitution combines the Senate and the Supreme Court for an impeachment court; it is also the highest court in the State in all civil and criminal cases.†   (source)
  • Senate as Court of Impeachment   (source)
  • If they conspired with the Executive to betray the interests of the nation in a ruinous treaty, would they get the punishment they deserved if they were the impeachment court?†   (source)
  • Judicial despotism comes from arbitrary impeachments, arbitrary methods of prosecuting pretended offenses, and arbitrary punishments on arbitrary convictions.†   (source)
  • Need Large Impeachment Court†   (source)
  • However, if the coconspirators realized that the President might be impeached and convicted, they would also realize that he would be unable to pardon them during any stage of planning or execution of the plan.†   (source)
  • What is an impeachment court?†   (source)
  • Besides clauses that relate to the structure of the government, we find the following: Article 1, section 3, clause 7: "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law."†   (source)
  • The President is to be the "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; "He is to have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment; "to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; "he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses of the legislature, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; "to tak†   (source)
  • Article 3, section 2, clause 3: "The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed."†   (source)
  • Judges Can Be Impeached   (source)
  • No longer did the entire nation breathlessly follow Senate debates, as in the days of the Great Compromise or the Johnson impeachment.†   (source)
  • Although previous resolutions of impeachment had been defeated in the House, both in committee and on the floor, a new resolution was swiftly reported and adopted on February 24 by a tremendous vote.†   (source)
  • Of these, Edmund Ross and those who stood with him in the Johnson impeachment trial selflessly sacrificed themselves to save the nation from reckless abuse of legislative power.†   (source)
  • The footsteps of the anti-impeaching Republicans were dogged from the day's beginning to its end and far into the night, with entreaties, considerations, and threats.†   (source)
  • As stated by De Witt in his memorable Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, "The full brunt of the struggle turned at last on the one remaining doubtful Senator, Edmund G. Ross."†   (source)
  • But when the second and third Articles of Impeachment were read, and the name of Ross was reached again with the same intense suspense of ten days earlier, again came the calm answer "Not guilty."†   (source)
  • Next he astounded his colleagues by seeking to disqualify from an impeachment hearing any Senator who had previously voted on the impeachment resolution as a Member of the House.†   (source)
  • The temporary and unstable two-thirds majority which had enabled the Senate Radical Republicans on several occasions to enact legislation over the President's veto was, they knew, insufficiently reliable for an impeachment conviction.†   (source)
  • Those in the North who sought to bind up the wounds of the nation and treat the South with mercy and fairness—men like President Andrew Johnson, and those Senators who stood by him in his impeachment—were pilloried for their lack of patriotism by those who waved the "bloody shirt."†   (source)
  • With the President impeached—in effect, indicted—by the House, the frenzied trial for his conviction or acquittal under the Articles of Impeachment began on March 5 in the Senate, presided over by the Chief Justice.†   (source)
  • With the President impeached—in effect, indicted—by the House, the frenzied trial for his conviction or acquittal under the Articles of Impeachment began on March 5 in the Senate, presided over by the Chief Justice.†   (source)
  • And more important, such amajority was Constitutionally required to accomplish their major ambition, now an ill-kept secret, conviction of the President under an impeachment and his dismissal from office!†   (source)
  • A committee of Congressmen and Senators sent to Kansas, and to the states of the other doubtful Republicans, this telegram: "Great danger to the peace of the country and the Republican cause if impeachment fails.†   (source)
  • To their dismay, at a preliminary Republican caucus, six courageous Republicans indicated that the evidence so far introduced was not in their opinion sufficient to convict Johnson under the Articles of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • "From that hour," he later wrote, "not a day passed that did not bring me, by mail and telegraph and inpersonal intercourse, appeals to stand fast for impeachment, and not a few were the admonitions of condign visitations upon any indication even of lukewarmness."†   (source)
  • The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the event in which the obscure Ross was to play such a dramatic role, was the sensational climax to the bitter struggle between the President, determined to carry out Abraham Lincoln's policies of reconciliation with the defeated South, and the more radical Republican leaders in Congress, who sought to administer the downtrodden Southern states as conquered provinces which had forfeited their rights under the Constitution.†   (source)
  • When the impeachment resolution had passed the House, Senator Ross had casually remarked to Senator Sprague of Rhode Island, "Well, Sprague, the thing is here; and, so far as I am concerned, though a Republican and opposed to Mr. Johnson and his policy, he shall have as fair a trial as an accused man ever had on this earth."†   (source)
  • Of the eleven Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House, the first eight were based upon the removal of Stanton and the appointment of a new Secretary of War in violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act; the ninth related to Johnson's conversation with a general which was said to induce violations of the Army Appropriations Act; the tenth recited that Johnson had delivere†   (source)
  • Trumbull, ending a brilliant career of public service and devotion to the party which would renounce him, filed for the record these enduring words: The question to be decided is not whether Andrew Johnson is a proper person to fill the Presidential office, nor whether it is fit that he should remain in it...Once set, the example of impeaching a President for what, when the excitement of the House shall have subsided, will be regarded as insufficient cause, no future President will be safe who happens to differ with a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate on any measure deemed by them important...What then becomes of the checks and balances of the Constitution so carefull†   (source)
  • But as the trial progressed, it became increasingly apparent that the impatient Republicans did not intend to give the President a fair trial on the formal issues upon which the impeachment was drawn, but intended instead to depose him from the White House on any grounds, real or imagined, for refusing to accept their policies.†   (source)
  • But the former Nashville professor was horrified by the mad passion of the House in rushing through the impeachment resolution by evidence against Johnson "based on falsehood," and by the "corrupt and dishonorable" Ben Butler, "a wicked man who seeks to convert the Senate of the United States into a political guillotine."†   (source)
  • Knowing that he was going to be investigated and fearing impeachment, Bullock did not wait.†   (source)
  • And ask him what he's going to do when they impeach him?†   (source)
  • But Lucy Stark did not leave the Boss after the settlement of the impeachment trouble.†   (source)
  • They had uncorked the real stuff: the impeachment of Willie Stark.†   (source)
  • "All right," the Boss said, "I'm going to stop this impeachment business for you.†   (source)
  • And now we got this impeachment business.†   (source)
  • The night after the impeachment blew up.†   (source)
  • For the impeachment of Byram B. White had become a minor issue.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Warren Hastings had been impeached and tried; Pope Sixtus the Fifth had come and gone; Dalmatia had been subdued by Tiberius; Belisarius had been blinded by Justinian; the wedding and funeral ceremonies of Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and King George the Second had been solemnized, while those of Berengaria of Navarre to King Richard the First were hardl†   (source)
  • "A small detail," I said, "but it would probably be less embarrassing to you, and especially to the signers of this document, if the impeachment proceedings were killed before coming to a vote.†   (source)
  • It was as if Scarret had heard a news flash announcing the impeachment of a President, the destruction of New York City by a meteor and the sinking of California into the Pacific Ocean.†   (source)
  • But we got to handle this impeachment.†   (source)
  • "Monty," he said into the phone, "I've got a statement here to the effect that the undersigned hold that the impeachment proceedings are unjustified and will vote against them despite all pressure.†   (source)
  • You impeach my sober judgment and make my canons of little worth.†   (source)
  • It's a flat impeachment of all that's worth while in human nature.†   (source)
  • Your father's office as mayor should be impeached.†   (source)
  • Nay, I do not impeach their shrewdness, Malluch.†   (source)
  • Then a man may take a little rest after a summer of hard work, and no impeachment of his goodwill.†   (source)
  • "I impeach not their fame," said the Templar; "nevertheless—"†   (source)
  • The Senate shall have the sole power to try all Impeachments.†   (source)
  • He addresses this to the astounded Tony, who admits the soft impeachment.†   (source)
  • "God forbid," said Lucas Beaumanoir, "that Jew or Pagan should impeach us of injustice!†   (source)
  • She will be in a state of mind to impeach the justice of the Republic.†   (source)
  • 'I denounce this person as a liar, and impeach him as a coward.†   (source)
  • These two nations do not regard the impeachment of the principal officers of State as a sufficient guarantee of their independence.†   (source)
  • , when he was impeached for peculation, as were a great number of other honest gentlemen of those days; and Walpole Crawley was, as need scarcely be said, son of John Churchill Crawley, named after the celebrated military commander of the reign of Queen Anne.†   (source)
  • The Leather-Stocking is much given to impeach the justice of the tenure by which the whites hold the country.†   (source)
  • 'If he hesitates or moves a finger but as you bid him, drag him into the street, call for the aid of the police, and impeach him as a felon in my name.'†   (source)
  • Here are three instances, then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there is no good ground to impeach.†   (source)
  • He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity.†   (source)
  • As to Captain Wentworth's views, she deemed it of more consequence that he should know his own mind early enough not to be endangering the happiness of either sister, or impeaching his own honour, than that he should prefer Henrietta to Louisa, or Louisa to Henrietta.†   (source)
  • The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • From the impeachment of Strafford to Farmer Lynch's short way with the scamps of Virginia there have been many triumphs of justice which are mockeries of law.†   (source)
  • If his honour be impeached, he will defend it with his body, and with that sword which has often fought for Christendom.†   (source)
  • I must attribute it, with your father, to the blood in my veins, although I would not impeach my lineage willingly; for it is all that is left me to boast of.†   (source)
  • In the United States, as well as in Europe, one branch of the legislature is authorized to impeach and another to judge: the House of Representatives arraigns the offender, and the Senate awards his sentence.†   (source)
  • Another political body enjoys the right of impeachment before the House of Lords: the only difference which exists between the two countries in this respect is, that in England the Commons may impeach whomsoever they please before the Lords, whilst in France the Deputies can only employ this mode of prosecution against the ministers of the Crown.†   (source)
  • It is true that from the moment when a general election was over, every returned man who had been raving on hustings because it hadn't been done, and who had been asking the friends of the honourable gentleman in the opposite interest on pain of impeachment to tell him why it hadn't been done, and who had been asserting that it must be done, and who had been pledging himself that it should be done, began to devise, How it was not to be done.†   (source)
  • The President, Vice-President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bucket receives the harmonious impeachment so modestly, confessing how that he did once chaunt a little, for the expression of the feelings of his own bosom, and with no presumptuous idea of entertaining his friends, that he is asked to sing.†   (source)
  • It was pointed out to the Prince, in impeachment of this decree, that the victory had been in fact won by the Disinherited Knight, who, in the course of the day, had overcome six champions with his own hand, and who had finally unhorsed and struck down the leader of the opposite party.†   (source)
  • All the constitutions which take cognizance of this matter, give to the House of Delegates the exclusive right of impeachment; excepting only the constitution of North Carolina, which grants the same privilege to grand juries.†   (source)
  • The functions of the House of Representatives are purely legislative, and the only share it takes in the judicial power is in the impeachment of public officers.†   (source)
  • When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.†   (source)
  • The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.†   (source)
  • That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by every highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it.†   (source)
  • —muttered Cedric; "Normans both;—but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not be impeached; they are welcome, since they have chosen to halt—more welcome would they have been to have ridden further on their way—But it were unworthy to murmur for a night's lodging and a night's food; in the quality of guests, at least, even Normans must suppress their insolence.†   (source)
  • Thus the jurisdiction of the Senate is less extensive than that of the Peers of France, whilst the right of impeachment by the Representatives is more general than that of the Deputies.†   (source)
  • A blush on the countenance of Monsieur the Marquis was no impeachment of his high breeding; it was not from within; it was occasioned by an external circumstance beyond his control—the setting sun.†   (source)
  • The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • From the time of that parting, Dorothea, believing in Will's love for her, believing with a proud delight in his delicate sense of honor and his determination that no one should impeach him justly, felt her heart quite at rest as to the regard he might have for Mrs. Lydgate.†   (source)
  • "Nothing of the sort," said Mr. Brooke, smiling and rubbing his eye-glasses, but really blushing a little at the impeachment.†   (source)
  • The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under the necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius (or perhaps the same) conceived the humour of impeaching casual passers-by, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.†   (source)
  • The other branch of the legislature, which is usually called the House of Representatives, has no share whatever in the administration, and only takes a part in the judicial power inasmuch as it impeaches public functionaries before the Senate.†   (source)
  • Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honor, Trust, or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishment according to Law.†   (source)
  • Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.†   (source)
  • When a public functionary is impeached before an English or a French political tribunal, and is found guilty, the sentence deprives him ipso facto of his functions, and it may pronounce him to be incapable of resuming them or any others for the future.†   (source)
  • , Section 4, of the Constitution of the United States runs thus:—"The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."†   (source)
  • It is to be observed, in the first place, that in the United States the tribunal which passes sentence is composed of the same elements, and subject to the same influences, as the body which impeaches the offender, and that this uniformity gives an almost irresistible impulse to the vindictive passions of parties.†   (source)
  • Another political body enjoys the right of impeachment before the House of Lords: the only difference which exists between the two countries in this respect is, that in England the Commons may impeach whomsoever they please before the Lords, whilst in France the Deputies can only employ this mode of prosecution against the ministers of the Crown.†   (source)
  • "Public officers," says the Constitution of Massachusetts, *b "shall be impeached for misconduct or maladministration;" the Constitution of Virginia declares that all the civil officers who shall have offended against the State, by maladministration, corruption, or other high crimes, may be impeached by the House of Delegates; in some constitutions no offences are specified, in order to subject the public functionaries to an unlimited responsibility.†   (source)
  • [Footnote d: See Appendix, N. [The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868—which was resorted to by his political opponents solely as a means of turning him out of office, for it could not be contended that he had been guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, and he was in fact honorably acquitted and reinstated in office—is a striking confirmation of the truth of this remark†   (source)
  • The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.†   (source)
  • How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur's mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.†   (source)
  • The only office of state which I ever held, O men of Athens, was that of senator: the tribe Antiochis, which is my tribe, had the presidency at the trial of the generals who had not taken up the bodies of the slain after the battle of Arginusae; and you proposed to try them in a body, contrary to law, as you all thought afterwards; but at the time I was the only one of the Prytanes who was opposed to the illegality, and I gave my vote against you; and when the orators threatened to impeach and arrest me, and you called and shouted, I made up my mind that I would run the risk, having law and justice with me, rather than take part in your injustice because I feared imprisonment and death.†   (source)
  • The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • Adoubted, afraid, Advision, vision, Afeard, afraid, Afterdeal, disadvantage, Againsay, retract, Aknown, known, Aligement, alleviation, Allegeance, alleviation, Allow, approve, Almeries, chests, Alther, gen. pl., of all, Amounted, mounted, Anealed, anointed, Anguishly, in pain, Anon, at once, Apair, weaken, Apparelled, fitted up, Appeach, impeach, Appealed, challenged, accused, Appertices, displays, Araged, enraged,; confused, Araised, raised, Arase, obliterate, Areared, reared, Armyvestal, martial, Array, plight, state of affairs, Arrayed, situated, Arson, saddle-bow, Askance, casually, Assoiled, absolved, Assotted, infatuated, Assummon, summon, Astonied, amazed, stunned, At, of, by†   (source)
  • The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.†   (source)
  • The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.†   (source)
  • The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.†   (source)
  • Not when they thought we were Mayflower people with this unimpeachable lineage!†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Highly educated, unimpeachable manners, appropriately sociable.†   (source)
  • Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?†   (source)
  • He has escorted women of unimpeachable breeding and pedigree.†   (source)
  • It's all got to look logical and natural and unimpeachable.†   (source)
  • With another dining room set and a "Sheraton" settee—sold to an out-of-town client who ought to have known better, but who was blinkered by Hobie and Welty's unimpeachable reputations as dealers—I'd gotten the shop out of debt.†   (source)
  • Despite her unimpeachable life, Fermina Daza was more careful now than ever of everything she said or did, even with her closest friends.†   (source)
  • Lift is hardly the most scholarly or unimpeachable source, but there is a great deal of other documentation, and I think that the point of familiar witness-ship is served.†   (source)
  • She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Here, Montaigne quoted an array of unimpeachable authorities from the Golden Age who confirmed conclusively that sadness is an emotion best shared.†   (source)
  • He was to be followed on the stand by seven unimpeachable character witnesses, seven of Savannah's most upstanding citizens.†   (source)
  • When the drinks had first been served to them, ten or fifteen minutes earlier, Lane had sampled his, then sat back and briefly looked around the room with an almost palpable sense of well-being at finding himself (he must have been sure no one could dispute) in the right place with an unimpeachably right-looking girl—a girl who was not only extraordinarily pretty but, so much the better, not too categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt.†   (source)
  • A few studies with unimpeachable methodology examined the consequences when there was a huge expansion in schooling for girls, even those from poor or conservative homes.†   (source)
  • It would not, and yet it would be a miracle, still, unimpeachable even by divisions, whole armies, of skeptics.†   (source)
  • I have it on unimpeachable authority that there will be an attempt made to strangle the Princess this very night.†   (source)
  • If Jenks had premeditated these crimes, mapped them out in some early book, it would constitute unimpeachable knowledge.†   (source)
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