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Go for it, here's how it applies to state legislatures. Illinois has a joint resolution before it now. We'll see. It's now the job of citizens to do what our representatives are are unwilling to do, remove tyrants from power...NOW.

Scoop News http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00294.htm

Bush Impeachment Resolution Introduced In Illinois
Monday, 24 April 2006, 2:03 pm
Opinion: Michael Collins

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Jefferson's Revenge

There is a little known set of supplementary rules for both the US Senate and House of Representatives developed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was clear on his opposition to centralized federal power and frequently sought balances giving states greater liberties and rights. Jefferson's rules, Section 603, state:

Inception of impeachment proceedings in the House: "there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion: by charges made on the floor on the responsibility of a Member or Delegate; by charges preferred by a memorial, which is usually referred to a committee for examination; by a resolution dropped in the hopper by a Member and referred to a committee; by a message from the President; by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory or from a grand jury."

The language in Jefferson's parliamentary guidelines is clear. State legislatures can set "an impeachment in motion" with a "Joint Resolution" approved by the legislature (both the state Senate and Assembly). No state has taken advantage of this provision. In fact, it is so obscure, the majority of Vermont legislators who asked for impeachment did so in a formal letter to the House of Representatives rather than invoking Jefferson's Rule 603.