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The practicality of impeachment
by Kat Howarth (KatHowarth)
Cite as: Kat Howarth, ‘The practicality of impeachment’ in Kat Howarth, Impeachment and the Convention, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 93.
Impeachment and the Convention
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- A consideration of Presidential 'removal'
- The practicality of impeachment
- Can the judiciary try an impeachment?
- Opposition to executive impeachment from Gouverneur Morris
- Morris argues against impeachment for a second time
- Strong support for the notion of impeachment
- Widening the Impeachment Clause
- Late stage concerns about the impeachment process
Commentary
The convention has now turned to the suggestion that the executive should be impeachable, but here Madison questions the sensibility of allowing the executive to hold office during good behaviour on the basis that impeachments may be impractical. He suggests that a tribunal for impeachments must be ‘as certain & as adequate in the one case as in the other’.
Although the motion for good behaviour was negatived, questions about how impeachments should be tried would crop up again and cause problems in later discussion.
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