Article II, Section 4, Clause 1
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.
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted bySuggestedCassius 10, ¶ 6
says, 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. — Thus we see that no office, however exalted, can protect the miscreant, who dares invade the liberties of his country, or countenance in his crimes the impious villain who…
Cites "Section 4, of article II" and reproduces this clause verbatim.
- cited bySuggestedAn American Citizen, Number I, ¶ 7
It appears, we have not admitted that he can do no wrong, but have rather pre-ſuppoſed he may and ſometimes will do wrong, by providing for his impeachment, his trial, and his peaceable and complete removal.
The paragraph says the Constitution provides for the President's "impeachment, his trial, and his peaceable and complete removal," which describes the impeachment clause of Article II, Section 4.
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 27
IF this reaſoning be not concluſive, the fourth ſection of the ſecond article puts it out of doubt, viz. "The Preſident, Vice Preſident, and all civil officers of the United States, ſhall be removed from office on impeachment, &c." The Senators are repreſentatives of the people; and by no conſtruction can be conſidered as civil officers of the State.
The paragraph names "the fourth section of the second article" and quotes it in quotation marks (the printed commas differ slightly from the clause).
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article II, ¶ 30
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.
The paragraph prints Article II, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.
- cited bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article II, ¶ 31
THE perſons ſubject to impeachment, are the Preſident Vice-Preſident, and all civil officers of the United States, and no others.
The paragraph names the persons subject to impeachment as the President, Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States, restating Article II, Section 4.
- cited bySuggestedFederalist No. 39, ¶ 5
The President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office.
Says the President "is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office," naming the impeachment provision for the President in this clause.
- cited bySuggestedFederalist No. 69, ¶ 4
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.
Repeats this clause's words "treason, bribery, or other high crimes" and "removed from office" in describing the President's liability to impeachment.
Anti-Federalist essays
- cited bySuggestedCato 4, ¶ 2
…the president; it also provides against the removal, death, or inability of the president and vice-president — regulates the salary of the president, delineates his duties and powers; and, lastly, declares the causes for which the president and vice-president shall be removed from office.
In its summary of "the 2d article", the paragraph names its last provision, the causes for which the president and vice-president "shall be removed from office".
Other writings
- quoted bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 23, 1788, ¶ 24
“The President and 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 or misdemeanors.”
The passage quotes the clause in quotation marks (ending "or misdemeanors" where the clause has "and Misdemeanors").
- quoted bySuggestedNorth Carolina convention, July 25, 1788, ¶ 30
And in the 4th section of the 2d article, it says that 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.
Maclaine names "the 4th section of the 2d article" and gives its words.
- cited bySuggestedSouth Carolina convention, January 17, 1788, ¶ 5
…great man himself, whom the honorable gentleman pretends to be so much afraid of, as well as the Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, are to be removed from office on impeachment and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Pinckney lists the President, Vice-President and civil officers as removable on impeachment and conviction, in the clause's words.
Debates in Congress
- quoted bySuggestedSenate, March 12, 1947 (3), ¶ 206
Article · U, section 4, paragraph 1; 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.
The printed excerpt cites Article II, section 4 ("U" is OCR for "II") and quotes it in full.
On Article II as a whole
- cited bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 28, 1788, ¶ 1
- cited bySuggestedNew York convention, July 4, 1788, ¶ 1
On Article II, Section 4 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedNorth Carolina convention, July 25, 1788, ¶ 31
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