Terrible Powers
“As Madison recognized, ‘In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it control itself.’
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“Impeachment is the House’s last and most extraordinary resort when faced with a President who threatens our constitutional system. It is a terrible power, but only ‘because it was forged to counter a terrible power: the despot who deems himself to be above the law.’” — The Majority Staff of the House Committee on the Judiciary; Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, p. 52
Edward Monaghan
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