Opening Argument of Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, One of the Managers on the Impeachment of the President (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Opening Argument of Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, One of the Managers on the Impeachment of the President

Now, for the first time in the history of the world, has a nation brought before its highest tribunal its chief executive magistrate for trial and possible deposition from office, upon charges of maladministration of the powers and duties of that office. In other times, and in other lands, it has been found that despotisms could only be tempered by assassination, and nations living under constitutional governments even, have found no mode by which to rid themselves of a tyrannical, imbecile, or faithless 'rule'r, save by overturning the very foun dation and frame-work of the government itself. And, but recently, in one of the most civilized and powerful governments of the world, from which our own institutions have been largely modeled, we have seen a nation submit for years to the rule of an insane king. Because its constitution contained no method for his removal.

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