For example, he favors a narrow interpretation of the impeachment clause of the United States Constitution.

Read together, the impeachment clauses require removal upon conviction but allow the Senate, at its discretion, to impose a single additional penalty - disqualification from future office.

When the Framers wrote the impeachment clause, senators were not popularly elected.

The Constitution has no provision, in its impeachment clauses, for an outside prosecutor to start the process of removing a President from office.

Under the traditional view of the impeachment clauses, conviction by the Senate is tantamount to removal from office.

"Has that impeachment clause ever been used?"

So, colleagues, if you honor the Constitution, you must look at the history of the Constitution and how we got to the impeachment clause.

And the impeachment clause is very dead, at least when a popular President is involved.

It was a grave assault on our constitutional structure: exactly the kind of state wrong for which the Framers of the Constitution designed the impeachment clause.

Mason succeeded in adding "high crimes and misdemeanors" to the impeachment clause.