impeachment
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impeachment englanniksi
The act of into question|calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
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(quote-book)|month=February|year=1530|year_published=1679|volume_plain=first part (Of the Progress Made in It during the Reign of K. VIII of England|Henry the VIII.)|section=book II (Of the Process of Divorce between King Henry and Queen of Aragon|Katharine,(nb...))|page=85|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Tw_AAAAcAAJ&hl=en&pg=RA1-PA85|oclc=1030811306|passage=(...) Nevertheleſs there was no ſo much care, labour, ſtudy, and diligence employed on our Party, by them, our ſelf, and other, for attaining your Grace's Purpoſe, but there was as much done by others for the lett and empeachment of the ſame; (...)
(RQ:Harvey Foure Letters)
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(quote-book), Publishing|Macmillan Publishing Company|year2=1970|page2=152|pageurl2=https://archive.org/stream/voyageofdawntr00lewi_0page/152/mode/1up|isbn2=978-0-02-044260-8|passage=And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.
A demonstration in a of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
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An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
(quote-book)|location=Dublin|publisher=Reprinted by Joseph Ray,(nb...), and are to be sold by S. Helsham, Joh. North, Joseph Howes(nb...)|date=4 December 1680|year_published=1681|page=243|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2hPydURXNoC&pg=PA243|oclc=933071073|passage=He &91;(w)&93; is charged in the Articles of Impeachment with Contriving the Death of the King, and being at ſeveral Meetings and Conſults about the King's Death, and Hiring Perſons to kill the King; And are theſe no Overt Acts? ... My Lords, another Exception that is taken, is, That there is no Indictment. I conceive that an Impeachment of the Houſe of Commons is more than an Indictment. And there cannot be any doubt of that, the Impeachment of the Houſe of Commons having always been received and proceeded on by your Lordships.
(senseid) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
(quote-journal)|magazine=The Gentleman's Magazine|The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|location=London|publisher=Printed(nb...), for David Henry, and sold by Newbery (publisher)|Francis Newbery,(nb...)|month=May|year=1774|year_published=January 1755|volume=XLIV|pages=236–237|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA236|oclc=192374019|passage=The Boſton Gazette of March 7 contains articles of impeachment of high crimes and miſdemeanors againſt Oliver (loyalist)|Peter Oliver, Eſq; Chief Juſtice of the Superior Court of Judicature, &c., over the Province of Maſſachuſets Bay, by the Houſe of Repreſentatives in General Court aſſembled, ... The Aſſembly perſiſted in their impeachment, which was carried, upon a diviſion, yeas 92, nays 8: ...
(RQ:Federalist)
(quote-book), on an Impeachment by the House of Representatives, before the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.(nb...)|edition=2nd|location=Lancaster, Pa.|publisher=Printd by George Helmbold, junior, for Lloyd and Helmbold, jun.|year=1803|pages=103–104|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqdXAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA103|oclc=926734832|passage=The acts for which an officer may be impeached, are preciſely thoſe for which he may be indicted as an officer; miſdemeanors in office, offences or unlawful acts done with an evil intention in his official capacity. For ſuch only can he be convicted on an Impeachment. And no officer can be convicted on an Impeachment, unleſs, on the ſame charge, and on the ſame evidence, he ought to be convicted on an Indictment. The ground of both is an unlawful act with an evil intention. Impeachment is Indictment, in other form, adopted in England for great offenders, whoſe influence might defeat the justice of the ordinary tribunals, and retained in Pennſylvania, either from ſimilar motives, or from imitation.
(quote-book), by Bowyer Nichols|John Bowyer Nichols and Sons,(nb...)|year=1853|page=271|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xgk1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA271|oclc=1009336804|passage=Another letter ... is worthy of being remembered, not merely as expressing more clearly Verney (soldier)|Edmund Verney's antipathy of a Scotish war, but also as indicating what were his expectations, and no doubt the general expectations, of the results of calling a parliament. The quashing of ship-money, the abolition of monopolies, and even the impeachments of Laud|William Laud and Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford|Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, are here clearly foreseen.
(quote-book), (w)|date=8 April 2010|oclc=638959508|passage=The impeachment process provides a mechanism for removal of the President, Vice President, and other federal civil officers found to have engaged in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The Constitution places the responsibility and authority to determine whether to impeach and to draft articles of impeachment in the hands of the House of Representatives. A number of means have been used to trigger the House's investigation, but the ultimate decision in all instances as to whether impeachment is appropriate rests with the House. Should the House vote to impeach and vote articles of impeachment specifying the grounds upon which impeachment is based, the matter is then presented to the Senate for trial.
The state of being impeached.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed and sold by D. Henry,(nb...)|year=1732|oclc=837132843|chapter2=VIII|title2=The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus; Translated (...) Containing Six Books of the Antiquities of the Jews|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Printed for Augustus Duyckinck|Evert Duyckinck, John Tiebout, and M. & W. Ward|year2=1810|volume2=II|section2=book IX (Containing the Interval of 157 Years. the Death of Ahab to the Captivity of the Ten Tribes.), paragraph 1|page2=253|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=nc0vAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA253|oclc2=1018068900|passage=Now (w), king of Syria, fought against the Israelites, and their king Jehu, and spoiled the eastern parts of the country beyond Jordan, ... and this without impeachment from Jehu, who made no haste to defend the country when it was under this distress: ...
(quote-book)|year=1908|volume=II|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1U1fv9pQA1UC&pg=PA58|oclc=505046558|passage=Robert Hovell, Licence to Hunt Foxes, &c. 1231 ... The King has granted to Robert Hovel that he and his heirs may have freely and without impeachment of the King's foresters and their ministers, through the whole forest bailywick of Essex, their dogs running for fox or hare and to chase and take the same, as is more fully contained in the King's charter to him thereupon made. And it is commanded Richerd de Munfichet that he permit the said Robert and his heirs to have without impeachment their dogs running though all the aforesaid forest for hare and fox and to chase and take the same as is aforesaid.
(l) (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, in the United States and other countries)
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(l) (gloss) (especially in reference to the political systems of English-speaking countries)