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If I were to sum up in one word the object of impeachment under the National Constitution, meaning what it has especially in view, with its practical limitation, I should say expulsion from office.
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Sumner succinctly defines the primary purpose of impeachment as the removal of an official from office.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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