If you are talking about impeachment, the Senate tries the president and can convict him of impeachment charges passed by the House.
If the president actually committed a crime, he could be indicted, tried and convicted by the court system like any other citizen.
The Senate must have a two-thirds vote, or at least 67 senators, to convict the president of impeachment, and remove him from office. The same margin is required to decide if the president should be impeached in the House of Representatives.
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the Senate did not convict him.
The US House of Representatives can bring impeachment charges against the President. If such charges are brought (which has happened twice in US History), then the Senate can vote to convict and remove the President by a 2/3 vote (which has never happened).
Dickens describes the convict as being a fearful man dressed in grey with a great iron chain around his leg. He seems to have been battered and bruised due to the amount of cuts on his body from nettles and flints etc. This tells us that the convict is in fact a convict and an escaped one at that.
(1) Two-thirds of the Senate votes to convict the president. (2) The president is removed from office.
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The sentence needs an agent (someone to perform the action of the verb)."We expected the convict to shoot at us" is active voice. We is the agent.People expected that the convict would shoot at us.
A two-thirds majority of the Senate is required to convict the President from office. A simple majority in the House suffices to impeach and force the Senate to hold a trial.
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Impeachment by the House (formally charging the President with misconduct) only requires a simple majority of the Representatives present and voting. The actual trial on an impeachment takes place in the US Senate, where a 2/3 vote is required to convict.
The right of the House to impeach appears in Article I, section2, last paragraph.The duty of Senate to hold impeachment trials and the 2/3 requirement to convict appears in Article I section 3 , paragraph 6.