Impeachment

Impeachment should apply to “the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust”. High crimes and misdemeanors “are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself” Hamilton, Federalist #65 -- "Impeachment should be “a remedy for usurpation or abuse of power or serious breach of trust” such as 'offenses against the government, and especially abuses of constitutional duties'. The emphasis 'has been on the significant effects of the conduct – undermining the integrity of the office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the governmental process, adverse impact on the system of government' - Judiciary Committee Report on Impeachment, 1974 -- "These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly in the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?” Hamilton, Federalist #68 -- Aren't we far past the time that our Congressmen who took the oath to the Constitution should act??