Article 1 Section 2 Clause 5

Article i section 2 clause 5.

Article 1 section 2 clause 5. Article i section 2 clause 5 the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. The constitution confers upon congress the power to impeach and thereafter remove from office the president 1 footnote. Arti s2 c5 1 1 the power of impeachment.

Neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years and been fourteen years a resident within the united states. Constitution states that each house may determine the rules of its proceedings punish its members for disorderly behaviour and with the concurrence of two thirds expel a member this seems like a fairly straightforward clause but it has ramifications that many folks often overlook. Text of article 1 section 2.

Article 1 section 3 clauses 6 and 7. And shall have the sole power of impeachment. The president shall at stated times receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the united states or any of them.

No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years and been seven years a citizen of the united states and who shall not when elected be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. The house of representatives shall chuse their speaker and other officers. And shall have the sole power of impeachment.

And shall have the sole power of impeachment. The senate of the united states shall be composed of two senators from each state elected by the people thereof for six years. This clause has been superseded by the seventeenth amendment ratified in 1913 which in part provides as amended that.

The senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the united states at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall be eligible to the office of president. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.