FEDERALIST No. 65. The Powers of the Senate Continued Audiobook (Free)

The Federalist Documents is a series of 85 articles arguing and only ratification of the United States Constitution by the thirteen original colonies. The Federalist documents were written in response to criticism of the Constitution. The content articles were first published between October 1787 and August 1788 in papers and then published in book type in 1788.

Federalist Zero. 65 discusses the reasoning behind the choice from the Senate to carry out Impeachment trials. He’s sanguine about the danger of politics factions polarizing the proceedings. He rejects the Supreme Court as too little a body to represent everyone and posits that assigning the House, the representative elected by the body politic, the duty of bringing costs and prosecuting an impeachment, and assigning the Senate, a body of smart elders elected by state legislatures, the duty using the matter, is the best that can be done to effect a result of a necessary parting of powers to accomplish a fair and just outcome.