Within that period the amplest opportunity was afforded to submit testimony and to hear the pleas of counsel.

The gravity of the procedure was fully realized by all who took part in it, and no pains were spared to secure the observance of every Constitutional requirement to the minutest detail.

In conserving its own prerogatives Congress made no attempt to curtail the prerogatives of the President during his trial.

The army and the navy were under his control, together with the power to change that vast host of Federal officers and employees whose appointment does not require the confirmation of the Senate.

Confidence in the reign of law was so absolute that no one ever dreamed it possible for the President to resist the force of its silent decree against him if one more voice in the Senate had pronounced him guilty.
The trial of Warren Hastings is always quoted as a precedent of imposing authority and consequence.