IMPEACHMENT

Article I
The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers;
and shall have the sole power of impeachment.

Article I
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments . When sitting
for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President
of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no
person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the
members present.

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.

Article II
 Section 2.
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 offenses against the
United States, except in cases of impeachment.

Article II
 Section 4.
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.

Article III
 Section 2.
The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising
under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made,
or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting
ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty
and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States
shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a
state and citizens of another state;-- between citizens of different states;
--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of
different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign
states, citizens or subjects.

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and
those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original
jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court
shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such
exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

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.

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