The President of the United States is impeachable at any time during his continuance in office.
And in Delaware and Virginia he is not impeachable till out of office.
Treason and bribery, specifically named in the Constitution as impeachable offenses, were also indictable.
But who can doubt that both are impeachable offenses, and ought to subject the offender to removal from office?
Randolph denounced "the monstrous pretension that an act to be impeachable must be indictable.
Its definition of an impeachable offence covered the identical charge which was contained in the resolution adopted by the Senate against the President.
Let him doubt, if he can, of the impeachable nature of the offence which was charged upon the President.
Subversive of the rights of defence, which belong to an accused and impeachable officer.
The President of the United States, therefore, has been by a majority of his constitutional triers, accused and found guilty of an impeachable offence; but in no part of this proceeding have the directions of the constitution been observed.
They receive their offices and salaries from, and are impeachable and removable by, the very governments upon whose acts they affect to sit in judgment.
He did not think that an Executive appointed for 6 years, and impeachable whilst in office w^d be a very effectual check.
But under no circumstances ought he to be impeachable by the Legislature.
He ought not to be impeachable unless he held his office during good behavior, a tenure which would be most agreeable to him; provided an independent and effectual forum could be devised.
If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected.
M^r Wilson concurred in the necessity of making the Executive impeachable whilst in office.
The Executive ought therefore to be impeachable for treachery: Corrupting his electors, and incapacity were other causes of impeachment.
I close this question of impeachable offences by asking you to consider that all the cases which have occurred in our history are in conformity with the rule which so many commentators have announced.
And thus Rawle unites with the “Federalist” in stamping upon impeachable offences the epithet “political.
Show me an act of evil example or influence committed by a President, and I show you an impeachable offence, great in proportion to the scale on which it is done, and the consequences menaced.
This brings us to the question of impeachable offences.
Next to the mystification from calling the Senate a court has been that other mystification from not calling the transgressions of Andrew Johnson “impeachable offences.
Therefore, in the defiant removal of Mr. Stanton, and also in the pretended suspension under the National Constitution with which the transaction began, the President violated the Constitution, and was guilty of an impeachable offence.
A mistake in judgment on such a question is not an impeachable offence, add the apologists.
What are impeachable offences has been much considered in this trial, and sometimes with very little appreciation of the question.
Violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act was explicitly declared animpeachable offense, and as to the flagrancy of its violation by the order of February 21 there could be no question.
He had no especial friendship for Mr. Johnson, but to him the differences between the President and Congress did not comprise an impeachable offense.
As to the question of the guilt or innocence of the President of the commission of an impeachable offense, this vote of the Senate was in the nature of a vote of "guilty.
Failed because not a single allegation of the entire indictment was or could be proven or tortured into all impeachable offense.
These are considerations why we should not hesitate to do that which justice authorizes us to do if we believe that the President has been guilty of impeachable offenses.
The managers of the impeachment were far from consistent in their conception of the nature of impeachable offenses.
It was accompanied by a brief of authorities upon the law of impeachable crimes and misdemeanors, prepared by Hon.
The Constitution makes the House of Representatives the exclusive judges, in the first instance, of the question whether the President has committed an impeachable offense.
The President of the United States, therefore, has been by a majority of his constitutional triers accused and found guilty of an impeachable offense, but in no part of this proceeding have the directions of the Constitution been observed.
The resolution, then, was in substance an impeachment of the President, and in its passage amounts to a declaration by a majority of the Senate that he is guilty of an impeachable offense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impeachable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
