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Dictionary Results for impeachment:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
impeachment
    n 1: a formal document charging a public official with
         misconduct in office

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impeachment \Im*peach"ment\, n. [Cf. F. emp[^e]chement.]
   The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as:
   (a) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. [Obs.]
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             Willing to march on to Calais,
             Without impeachment.                 --Shak.
   (b) A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a
       public officer for maladministration.
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             The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like
             to have been fatal to their state.   --Swift.
   (c) A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude
       of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as,
       an impeachment of motives. --Shak.
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   Note: In England, it is the privilege or right of the House
         of Commons to impeach, and the right of the House of
         Lords to try and determine impeachments. In the United
         States, it is the right of the House of Representatives
         to impeach, and of the Senate to try and determine
         impeachments.
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   Articles of impeachment. See under Article.

   Impeachment of waste (Law), restraint from, or
      accountability for, injury; also, a suit for damages for
      injury. --Abbott.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IMPEACHMENT, const. law, punishments. Under the constitution and laws of the 
United States, an impeachment may be described to be a written accusation, 
by the house of representatives of the United States, to the senate of the 
United States, against an officer. The presentment, written accusation, is 
called articles of impeachment. 
     2. The constitution declares that the house of representatives shall 
have the sole power of impeachment art. 1, s. 2, cl. 5 and that the senate 
shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. Art. 1, s. 3, cl. 6. 
     3. The persons liable to impeachment are the president, vice-president, 
and all civil officers of the United States. Art. 2, s. 4. A question arose 
upon an impeachment before the senate, in 1799, whether a senator was a 
civil officer of the United States, within the purview of this section of 
the constitution, and it was decided by the senate, by a vote of fourteen 
against eleven, that he was not. Senate Journ., January 10th, 1799; Story on 
Const. Sec. 791; Rawle on Const. 213, 214 Serg. Const. Law, 376. 
     4. The offences for which a guilty officer may be impeached are, 
treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. Art. 2, s. 4. The 
constitution defines the crime of treason. Art. 3, s. 3. Recourse must be 
had to the common law for a definition of bribery. Not having particularly 
mentioned what is to be understood by "other high crimes and misdemeanors," 
resort, it is presumed, must be had to parliamentary practice, and the 
common law, in order to ascertain what they are. Story, Sec. 795. 
     5. The mode of proceeding, in the institution and trial of 
impeachments, is as follows: When a person who may be legally impeached has 
been guilty, or is supposed to have been guilty, of some malversation in 
office, a resolution is generally brought forward by a member of the house 
of representatives, either to accuse the party, or for a committee of 
inquiry. If the committee report adversely to the party accused, they give a 
statement of the charges, and recommend that he be impeached; when the 
resolution is adopted by the house, a  committee is appointed to impeach the 
party at the bar of the senate, and to state that the articles of 
impeachment against him will be exhibited in due time, and made good before 
the senate, and to demand that the senate take order for the appearance of 
the party to answer to the impeachment. The house then agree upon the 
articles of impeachment, and they are presented to the senate by a committee 
appointed by the house to prosecute the impeachment; the senate then issues 
process, summoning the party to appear at a given day before them, to answer 
to the articles. The process is served by the sergeant-at-arms of the 
senate, and a return is made of it to the senate, under oath. On the return-
day of the process, the senate resolves itself into a court of impeachment, 
and the senators are sworn to do justice, according to the constitution and 
laws. The person impeached is called to answer, and either appears or does 
not appear. If he does not appear, his default is recorded, and the senate 
may proceed ex parte. If he does appear, either by himself or attorney, the 
parties are required to form an issue, and a time is then assigned for the 
trial. The proceedings on the trial are conducted substantially as they are 
upon common judicial trials. If any debates arise among the senators, they 
are conducted in secret, and the final decision is given by yeas and nays; 
but no person can be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the 
members present. Const. art. 1, s. 2, cl. 6. 
     6. When the president is tried, the chief justice shall preside. The 
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. Proceedings on impeachments under 
the state constitutions are somewhat similar. Vide Courts of the United 
States. 



4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IMPEACHMENT, evidence. An allegation, supported by proof, that a witness who 
has been examined is unworthy of credit. 
     2. Every witness is liable to be impeached as to his character for 
truth; and, if his general character is good, he is presumed, at all times, 
to be ready to support it. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3224, et seq. 



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