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handle is hein.crs/crsabce0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 98-895 A October 30, 1998 Impeachment Grounds: Part 3: Hamilton, Wilson and Story Charles Doyle Senior Specialist American Law Division Summary The Federalist Papers No. 65 (Hamilton) A well constituted court for the trial of impeachments, is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words from 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 the society itself. The prosecution of them, for this reason, 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. In many cases, it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will inlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest on one side, or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger, that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt, THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, 396-97 (Rossiter ed. 1961). James Wilson Congressional Research Service **** The Library of Congress CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web This is a collection of selected background materials pertinent to the issue of what constitutes impeachable misconduct for purposes of Article II, section 4 of the United States Constitution quoted below. It includes excerpts from No.65 of the FEDERALIST PAPERS by Alexander Hamilton, and from the writings of his contemporaries Supreme Court Justices James Wilson and Joseph Story. It is the third of six segments that together with footnotes comprise, Impeachment Grounds: A Collection of Selected Materials, CRS Report 98-882. The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on impeachmentfor, and Conviction of Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. U.S.Const. Art. II, §4

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