Section 4. Impeachment
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Court for the Trial of Impeachments
The House of Representatives solely shall have the power of impeaching. The Court for the Trial of Impeachments shall be the Senate. When the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor is impeached, the Chief Justice shall preside over the Court. A majority of the members shall be necessary to a quorum, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present. Judgment upon conviction shall not extend beyond removal from and disqualification to hold office in this State, but the party shall be liable to indictment and punishment according to law.
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1. The Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Superior Courts, and all other officers of this State (except Justices of the Peace and Militia officers.) may be impeached for wilfully violating any Article of the Constitution, mal-administration or corruption.
2. Judgment, in case of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under this State; but the party convicted, may, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
3. The House of Commons shall have the sole power of impeachment. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments; no person shall be convicted upon any impeachment, unless two-thirds of the Senators present shall concur in such conviction; and before the trial of any impeachment, the members of the Senate shall take an oath or affirmation truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question according to evidence.
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That the Governor and other Officers offending against the State by violating any part of this Constitution, Mal-administration or Corruption, may be prosecuted on the impeachment of the General Assembly on presentment of the Grand Jury of any Court of Supreme Jurisdiction in this State.