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the 49, 47 required the house to bring the impeachment,

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one required the senate to bring impeachment and one is

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unicameral. The court of an impeachment. Forth-six

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states require the senate to sit as a court of impeach-

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ment; one requires the state supreme court to sit as a

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court of impeachment, and one requires that its governor

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be tried by a special commission of eminent jurors to be

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elected by the senate.

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The model constitution also recommends the

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legislature trial.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Scanlan.

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DELEGATE SCANLAN: I would prefer Professor

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Winslow's history to Delegate Gill's statistics. The

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nistory of impeachment in this country has been one pri-

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marily of misuse. Where it has been used for the most

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part it has been subject to gross abuse for purely partisan

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advantages and the trial of Andrew Johnson illustrates it,

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and the trial of the five governors in the reconstruction

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area illustrates it and in each one of those cases it was

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the senate that was the guilty body. I suggest that we

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strike out with a few other states and put the special