If such a power is lodged anywhere outside of judicial tribunals, it must be in the House of Representatives, as the Grand Inquest of the Nation, with its power to impeach all civil officers, from the President down; but it cannot be in the Senate.
Sumner argues that if any power exists outside judicial tribunals, it should reside in the House of Representatives, not the Senate.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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