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Presidential Impeachment:
Legal Basis of Impeachment
- Constitutional
and Statutory Provisions on Impeachment (Karl Manheim, Loyola Law
School, Los Angeles)
Lists the specific provisions relating to impeachment, historical standards, those who have been impeached, and more (http://classes.lls.edu/archive/manheimk/371d1/impeach.htm) - Constitutional Grounds
for Presidential Impeachment: Modern Precedents (House Judiciary
Committee) [PDF format, requires Acrobat
Reader]
Nov. 1998 review of the precedents and general principals related to impeachment; updates the 1974 report prepared for the Nixon proceedings (which is included as an appendix) (http://www.house.gov/judiciary/serialno9.pdf) -
Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment (House
Judiciary Committee; reprinted by the Washington Post)
Report on the constitutional grounds for impeachment, prepared for the Nixon hearings in 1974 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/watergatedoc.htm) - Impeachment: An
Overview of Constitutional Provisions, Procedure, and Practice
(Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)
Feb. 1998 report to the House Judiciary Committee (http://www.house.gov/judiciary/98186.htm) - James
Madison's Notes of Debates in the Constitutional Convention, July 20,
1787 (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
Debate on the question of whether the Executive could be impeached while still in office (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/720.htm) - James
Madison's Notes of Debates in the Constitutional Convention, September
8, 1787 (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
Debate on trial by the Senate, and what crimes would be impeachable (introduces the phrase "other high crimes and misdemeanors") (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/debates/908.htm) - Federalist
Papers #65 (Library of Congress THOMAS)
Alexander Hamilton argues in favor the Senate's power to hear impeachments (March 7, 1788) (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fed_65.html) - Federalist
Papers #66 (Library of Congress THOMAS)
Alexander Hamilton answers objections to the Senate hearing impeachments (March 11, 1788) (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fed_66.html)
Background | Past
Impeachments 
prepared by Timothy A. Balch MSLS, MA
Marshall University, John Deaver Drinko Library
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suggestions for additional listings to Timothy A. Balch
Revised November 5, 2003
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