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3857. IMPEACHMENT, The judiciary and.—[continued].

In the General Government
in this instance, we have gone even beyond
the English caution, by requiring a vote
of two-thirds, in one of the Houses, for removing
a Judge; a vote so impossible, where
any defence is made, before men of ordinary
prejudices and passions, that our Judges are
effectually independent of the nation. But
this ought not to be.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 81. Ford ed., i, 112.
(1821)