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Impeachment begins a formal investigation, its not just "we vote and it's over."

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The notion that only criminal conduct can constitute sufficient grounds for impeachment does not comport with either the views of the founders or with historical practice.[1] Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 65, described impeachable offenses as arising from the misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust.[3] Such offenses were political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.[3] According to this reasoning, impeachable conduct could include behavior that violates an officials duty to the country, even if such conduct is not necessarily a prosecutable offense. Indeed, in the past both houses of Congress have given the phrase high Crimes and Misdemeanors a broad reading, finding that impeachable offenses need not be limited to criminal conduct.[4][1]

SephG saying the founding fathers are wrong.
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