156 crimes and misdemeanors,” as provided in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, but for intemperate political criticism of the Administration in his instructions to a grand jury. He was acquitted after a trial in the Senate. He is the only Justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have been impeached, but there is little doubt in the minds of convicted historians a similar that had he fate awaited been Chief Justice Marshall and his colleagues; not for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” but for disagreeing with the Administration.’ Thomas Jefferson never recanted on his enmity, and twelve years after he left the presidency he wrote: “The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground confederated to undermine fabric. the They foundations are of construing our our Constitution from a co-ordination of a general and