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attorney general or another impeachable officer has com-

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mitted a serious offense or is alleged to commit a serious

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offense, then he should be tried in a court of law as

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any other citizen would be tried for committing a crime.

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If he has only done something for which he can be impeached

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then he should be tried politically.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Any other delegate desire to

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speak in opposition to the amendment?

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Delegate Winslow.

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DELEGATE WINSLOW: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me

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that my Brother Delegate Hanson — Mr. Chairman, it seems

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to me that my Brother Delegate Hanson has forgotten some

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of his history.

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One of the ills of impeachment as it has been

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known in this country in one case, in Oklahoma, has

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indicated that legislatures both lower house and senate

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have been controlled not by the mere politics but by the

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most terrible partisan politics. This was what was true

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in the most famous impeachment trial in America, that of

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President Johnson, and it was only because a lawyer

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appeared before the United States Senate and insisted that