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4 - Impeaching Legislators and Lesser Executive Branch Officials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2023

Frank O. Bowman III
Frank O. Bowman III
Affiliation:
University of Missouri, Columbia
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Explains that term “civil officers” impeachable under the constitution was commonly thought to include senators until the Senate decided otherwise in 1798 case of Senator William Blount. Inferior executive branch appointees of the President have always been impeachable, but only one such official, Secretary of War William Belknap, whose case is detailed here, has been. Also addresses impeachment of former officers.

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senatorsimpeachment of senatorscivil officerscabinet officersWilliam BlountWilliam Belknapformer civil officersforeign affairs
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors
A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump
 , pp. 108 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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