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Barbara Jordan: “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment”

( 1974 ) Commentary by Carol A. Pettit, Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress
  • “My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.” - “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment”
  • “If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that eighteenth-century Constitution should be abandoned to a twentieth-century paper shredder.” - “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment”
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