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Re: High Crimes and Misdemeaners (was Impeachment)
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:16:27 GMT
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I think you're right, although it seems to imply that a president could
be impeached for jaywalking.  The upshot appears to be that whatever
the House and Senate consider impeachable is impeachable.

as evah,

John C.

Larry Pieniazek writes:
John Cromer wrote:

ps to Larry P:  I did a non-case-sensitive search through the 85
Federalist Papers at
http://www.augur.demon.co.uk/federalist-papers/index.htm for "high
crimes" and came up with zip.  A more specific reference to a Federalist
Paper would help me.

I did some digging and I could not find it either. Well, somebody ELSE
said it was, and I should have verified it before I alleged. But I'd be
willing to bet (since you can't call me on it, they're all dead now)
that what I outlined was what was intended by the authors.




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  Re: Impeachment
 
(...) I did some digging and I could not find it either. Well, somebody ELSE said it was, and I should have verified it before I alleged. But I'd be willing to bet (since you can't call me on it, they're all dead now) that what I outlined was what (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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