Clause 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all
impeachments: when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath
or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried,
the Chief Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted
without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Clause 7. Judgment in cases 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 the United States; but
the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to
indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.
=Section IV.=--Clause 1. The times, places and manner of holding
elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in
each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any
time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the
places of choosing Senators.
Clause 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year,
and such, meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless
they shall by law appoint a different day.
=Section V.=--Clause 1. Each house shall be the judge of the
elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a
majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a
smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized
to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and
under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Clause 2. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings,
punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the
concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Clause 3. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and
from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may
in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the
members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of
one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Clause 4. Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall,
without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days,
nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be
sitting.
=Section VI.=--Clause 1. The Senators and Representatives shall
receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by
law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall
in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be
privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of
their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the
same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not
be questioned in any other place.
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