| Of course, no one is suggesting that Congress subsist on a regular diet of impeachments. |
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| Under the Constitution, impeachments are brought by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate. |
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| In the two actual impeachments of American Presidents, no impeachable offense was committed. |
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| Although political motivations almost always underlay impeachments, the proceedings were judicial and significant evidence of wrongdoing was required for conviction. |
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| Other presidents did worse and there were no exposes or impeachments. |
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| Needless to say, it is far easier to attract attention with noisy public hearings and dogged filibusters than through workaday legislative compromise. The most spectacular political theatre comes in the form of impeachments. |
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| First, the Constitution explicitly requires supermajorities only in a few special cases: ratifying treaties and constitutional amendments, overriding presidential vetoes, expelling members and for impeachments. |
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| Their visits served notice that a large chunk of South-East Asia has stabilised, as far as politics is concerned: for much of the previous year, elections, impeachments and indictments had made the region seem hopeless. |
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| During the reign of the Lancastrians, impeachments were very frequent, but they reduced under the Tudors, when bills of attainder became the preferred method. |
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| Impeachments are tried by the House of Lords, where a simple majority is necessary to convict. |
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