[19981030]98-893_弹劾理由：第一部分：制宪前会议材料.pdf

Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web98-893 AOctober 30, 1998Impeachment Grounds:Part I: Pre-Constitutional Convention Materials(name redacted)Senior SpecialistAmerican Law DivisionSummaryThis is a collection of selected background materials pertinent to the issue of whatconstitutes impeachable misconduct for purposes of Article II, section 4 of the UnitedStates Constitution quoted below. It includes excerpts from Blackstone, Wooddeson,and the impeachment clauses in pre-Constitutional Convention state constitutions. It isthe first 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 beremoved from Office on impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or otherhigh Crimes and Misdemeanors. U.S.Const. Art. II, 4Blackstone“The high court of parliament; which is the supreme court in the kingdom, notonly for the making, but also for the execution, of laws; by the trial of great andenormous offenders, whether lords or commoners, in the method of parliamentar