Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additional question, raised by Walter and Miriam Schneir in their book Invitation to an Inquest, is whether Gold was even in New Mexico at the time he was supposed to have contacted Greenglass. The Schneirs have demonstrated that there is good reason to believe that the hotel registration card which the FBI used as documentation was a forgery...
...Benjamin Franklin asked during the Constitutional Convention, a President "rendered himself obnoxious"? To Alexander Hamilton, the most persuasive apostle of a strong Chief Executive, impeachment was the answer-the ultimate device for checking power in a democracy. In Hamilton's words, it was "a method of National Inquest into the conduct of public men," to be conducted by "the inquisitors for the nation" in Congress...
...House must play the role of grand jury, deciding whether the evidence of presidential abuse warrants sending articles of impeachment to the Senate. The House duty, as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson phrases it, is to conduct "the grand inquest of the nation." Since October, the House Judiciary Committee has been at work assembling evidence and defining the modern meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors; it hopes to finish its work by April or May. If the 38-member committee then votes to recommend impeachment, the House as a whole cannot escape voting yea or nay on the President...
...coroner gave the cause of death as an edema (swelling) of the brain, a finding that is being investigated further in an inquest...
...House committee approves, then the full House, calling itself "the grand inquest of the nation," decides by a simple majority whether to impeach, the equivalent of an indictment. If it does, the Senate becomes "the high court of impeachment," and conducts the trial; it can convict by a two-thirds majority of those present. Andrew Johnson, the lone President to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote (35-19) after he attempted to fire his popular Secretary of War in defiance of a new law that forbade...