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ARTICLE V.
Concerning Impeachments.

Sect. 1. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of im
peaching.

Sect. 2. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate: when fitting for that
purpose, the seantors shall bbe upon oath or affirmation: No person shall be con
victed without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.

Sect. 3. The governor and all civil officers shall be liable to impeachment
for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment, in such cases, shall not extend fur
ther than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honour,
trust, or profit under this commonwealth; but the party convicted shall never
theless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, and punishment according to law.

ARTICLE VI.
General Provisions.

Sect. 1. Members of the general assembly, and all officers, executive and
judicial, before they enter upon the execution of their respective offices shall
take the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the
case may be) that I will be faithful and true to the commenwalth of Kentucky,
so long as I continue a citizen thereof, and that I will faithfully execute, to the
best of my abilities, the office of [blank} according to law."

Sect. 2. Treason against the commonwealth, shall consist only in levying war
against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Nor person
shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same
overt act, or his own confession in open court.

Sect. 3. Laws shall be made to exclude from office and from suffrage, those'
who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes
or misdemeanors. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws
regulating elections, and prohibiting under adequate penalties, all undue influence
thereon from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practices.

Sect. 4. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law, nor shall any appropriations of money for thesup
port of an army be made for a longer time than one year; and a regular statement
and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money, shall be pub
lished annually.

Sect. 5. The legislature shall direct by law in what manner, and in what
courts suits may be brought against the commonwealth.
Sect. 6. The manner of administering an oath or affirmation shall be such
as is most consistent with the conscience of the deponent, and shall be esteemed by
the legislature the most solemn appeal to God.

Sect. 7. All laws which on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-two, were in force in the state of Virginia, and which are of a general
nature, and not local to that state, and not repugnant to this constitution, nor with