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not stand for reelection for eight years following a

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trial for impeachment be the appropriate body to undertake

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an act of such great political magnitude as the removal

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from office of the incumbent Governor? Why should the

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people not be able to hold accountable those who remove the

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chief executive of the state from office?

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer.

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DELEGATE BOYER: I think this is one of the

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healthy aspects of the situation. I cannot help but

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divorce myself completely from any partisan implications

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involving whether or not a man is guilty. I think it

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is healthy, the fact that someone who does not stand for

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election in either two or four years, that these would

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be the appropriate ones to hear the proceeding. They

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are not under any political pressure.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Dclepate Hanson, I think you

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would probably know better than the Chair that this question

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of leaving impeachment to the Senate was probably the most

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heated debate in the Federal Constitutional Convention of

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1787. The vote passed bv one. You would probably recall

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whether that was true.