Senators, "unawed and uninfluenced" by the passions of the day, are "sufficiently dignified" to weigh whether an impeached official should be thrown from office.
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"Leader McConnell, are you, in Alexander Hamilton's words, unawed and uninfluenced to produce the necessary impartiality, or will you participate in a cover-up?" he asked.
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The Senate -- as articulated by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 65 -- was expected to be "a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent...to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality" in an impeachment trial.
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What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in this own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the Representatives of the people, his accuser?
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What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve unawed and uninfluenced the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?
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What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused and the representatives of the people, his accusers?
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A secret ballot, though not what Hamilton was advocating for, would give the Senate what Hamilton described as "confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed, and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality" to render a fair trial.
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For his part, say his friends, Mr Soames is both unawed and unconceited about his grandfather, with whom he dimly recalls playing cowboys and Indians.
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Marcabrun: the chronicle of a foundling who spoke evil of women and of love and followed unawed the paths of arrogance until they led to madness: and of his dealings with women and of ribald words, the which brought him repute as a great rascal and as a great singer. New York, George H. Doran Co., [c.1926]. Parachute. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c.1928].
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In addition to his law practice, Byron Daniels started a newspaper, The Vancouver Independent, in Vancouver. He was both the publisher and the editor for this weekly local newspaper. The paper's banner stated "Here Shall the Press the People’s Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence, Unbribed by Gain" in testament to the independence sought by Daniels. Previous local papers had been outspoken in support of various sides in local and national issues.
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The system has been successful but Publius does continue by asking if this model is proper for our own proposed government. Ultimately Publius says that no other group is really capable for such a task. He states that, "What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?" et. al. Publius goes through other possible bodies that could act as a tribunal or jury.
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