Draft:Impeachment in Oregon
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Pre-statehood
State constitution prior to impeachment clause
For decades, Oregon was the sole state without an impeachment clause.[1] The Constitution of Oregon expressly forbade impeachment, and instead prescribed the holding of trials subject to identical manner of criminal trials to be used for the purposes try "incompetency, corruption, malfeasance or delinquency in office", with such a legal trial being able to result in removal and any further punishments persuade by statute. To this effect, article 7 section 6 of the state constitution originally read,
Public officers shall not be impeached; but incompetency, corruption, malfeasance or delinquency in office may be tried in the same manner as criminal offenses, and judgment may be given of dismissal from office, and such further punishment as may have been prescribed by law.[1]
Adoption of impeachment clause
Legislative passage
Ratification by voters
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