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	High Crimes and Misdemeanors
		It is the consensus among legal and constitutional scholars that the phrase "other high Crimes and Misdemeanors" refers to "political crimes." While not necessarily indictable crimes, "political crimes" are great offenses against the federal government.
		Likewise, high crimes and misdemeanors can be serious abuses of the governmental power with which the President has been trusted.
		When the plot was exposed, the House of Representatives leveled articles of impeachment against Blount, asserting that Blount committed high crimes and misdemeanors by undertaking a course of conduct that threatened American neutrality and peace, and potentially violated international treaties.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0618-28.htm (1210 words)

	High crimes and misdemeanors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		High crimes and misdemeanors is a phrase from the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
		A high crime is one which seeks the overthrow of the country, which gives aid or comfort to its enemies, or which injures the country to the profit of an individual or group.
		The first impeachment conviction by the U.S. Senate was in 1804 of District Judge John Pickering for the high crime and misdemeanor of chronic intoxication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_crimes_and_misdemeanors (324 words)

	reverse shot : online : spring 2004
		In a patent dialogue with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the film’s main plot revolves around a murder committed by a prestigious ophthalmologist, Judah (Martin Landau), and the effects of this crime on his (lack of) Jewish faith.
		The crimes committed by Raskolnikov in the novel and by Judah in the film are motivated by an attempt to preserve a certain social status.
		Crimes and Misdemeanors encapsulates this model by featuring the director in a secondary role in a multiple-plot narrative.
	www.reverseshot.com /spring04/crimes.html (1427 words)

	Meaning of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
		I have carefully researched the origin of the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" and its meaning to the Framers, and found that the key to understanding it is the word "high".
		Under the English common law tradition, crimes were defined through a legacy of court proceedings and decisions that punished offenses not because they were prohibited by statutes, but because they offended the sense of justice of the people and the court.
		It should be noted, however, that when an offense against a statute is also a "high crime or misdemeanor", it may be, and usually is, referred to by a different name, when considered as such.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/high_crimes.htm (1182 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Crimes and Misdemeanors (xhtml)
		Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a thriller about the dark nights of the soul.
		But the rabbi's blindness is a symbol for the dark undercurrent of "Crimes and Misdemeanors," which seems to argue that God has abandoned men, and that we live here below on a darkling plain, lost in violence, selfishness and moral confusion.
		"Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not, properly speaking, a thriller, and yet it plays like one.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19891013/REVIEWS/910130302/1023 (869 words)

	What Are "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"? Bruce Gottlieb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A third group of scholars believes that "high crimes and misdemeanors" refers to "crimes against the state." A crime is against the state when it attacks the very core of the state's apparatus--treason is against the state, jaywalking is not.
		There is a linguistic argument that "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors" implies that high crimes and misdemeanors must be equal in seriousness to treason and bribery.
		One professor has even suggested that "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not the standard for impeachment, and that a president can be impeached for considerably less.
	www.slate.com /id/1002016 (934 words)

	High Crimes and Misdemeanors
		The phrase, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" can be evading to the human ear, the same way those trusty attorneys can change the meaning of two words like cat and dog by twisting them around to appear as felidae and canidae even though the meaning or relation is quite similar.
		Or, the phrase could mean that a high crime and a misdemeanor are needed to impeach.
		Unlike the crimes that are done today against people or their property and possessions, misdemeanors were characterized as a crime against the state, a larger offense.
	library.thinkquest.org /25673/highcrimes.htm (909 words)

	Capitol Questions
		"High crimes and misdemeanors" entered the text of the Constitution due to George Mason and James Madison.
		In 18th century language, a "misdemeanor" meant "mis-demeanor,"or bad behavior (neglect of duty and corruption were given as examples), while "high crimes" was roughly equivalent to "great offenses."
		Lawyers and historians are still arguing about the exact meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors," dividing into three schools of thought about the appropriate definition: (1) serious criminality evidenced by breaking existing law; (2) an abuse of office, and (3) the Alexander Hamilton standard (Federalist 65) of "violation of public trust."
	www.c-span.org /questions/week119.htm (360 words)

	Crimes and Misdemeanors (Philosophical Films)
		Crimes and Misdemeanors is a Woody Allen film that takes a serious and entertaining look at ethics and morality.
		Crimes and Misdemeanors had humor, good writing and acting, blood, and a guy poops on some woman's chest.
		In Crimes and Misdemeanors, the viewer gets presented with a film that is entertaining and philosophically relevant.
	www.philfilms.utm.edu /1/crimes.htm (2174 words)

	'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A relative of "Hannah and Her Sisters" in its duplex structure and of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" in its bitter theme, "Crimes" is two movies in one, a blend of Allen's satiric and pretentious dramatic styles.
		There is also a cinematic glue -- old movie scenes that presage developments in "Crimes" -- that binds the monstrous sins of a crumbling community pillar with the follies of a fool in love.
		"Crimes" feels like a tug of war between Landau's potent depiction of a blandly evil man, a man trusted with vision, and Allen's eternally comic hand-wringer.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/crimesandmisdemeanorspg13kempley_a09fe2.htm (563 words)

	The Claremont Institute: What Does "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" Mean?
		Note that although the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had, on Madison's objection, rejected George Mason's proposed standard of "maladministration," the secrecy of the Convention's proceedings meant that this was not known to the delegates in the state ratifying conventions.
		The imprecision surrounding the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" in the Convention and the follow-on debates in the state ratifying conventions is not especially surprising; for this phrase had its source in over four centuries of British parliamentary practice, during which its meaning was no more specific.
		This linkage of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to the duties of office is entirely consistent with famed nineteenth-century jurist Joseph Story's extended discussion of impeachment in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, published in 1833.
	www.claremont.org /projects/constitution/981215bessette.html (8169 words)

	Hugh Grant plus high crimes and misdemeanors - September 15, 1998
		"High crimes and misdemeanors" is a phrase taken from English law, referring to political crimes against the state, and violating the public trust.
		Since this is not criminal law, the standard for determining whether Clinton has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" is not "beyond a reasonable doubt." It is a much easier standard to prove.
		Therefore, it is futile for Clinton supporters to focus on the argument that Clinton did not commit perjury since he believed his behavior did not constitute "sexual relations." Technical legal arguments may have to pass muster in front of the grand jury in a legal courtroom, but not in impeachment proceedings.
	wc.arizona.edu /papers/92/16/04_3_m.html (723 words)

	High Crimes and Misdemeanors
		Finally, assuming that the President did lie to the public about the affair, and assuming he did wilfully and unreasonably quibble about the meaning of "sexual relations," these are not high crimes and misdemeanors in violation of the public trust in matters of State.
		The articles of impeachment are a kind of bills of indictment, found by the house of commons, and afterwards tried by the lords; who are in cases of misdemeanors considered not only as their own peers, but as peers of the whole nation.
		It is calculated to bring them to punishment for crimes which it is not easy to describe, but which every one must be convinced is a high crime and misdemeanor against the government.
	www.commonlaw.com /Impeachment.html (2119 words)

	Impeach Bush
		The definition of "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was left intentionally vague by the founders but is generally considered to refer to misconduct or a violation of the public trust that is injurious to society.
		The crimes of Treason and Bribery are fairly straightforward.
		Second, the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was confined to parliamentary impeachments; it had no roots in the ordinary criminal law, and the particular allegations of misconduct under that heading were not necessarily limited to common law or statutory derelictions or crimes.'
	www.impeachbush.tv /impeach/offenses.html (710 words)

	Amazon.com: Crimes and Misdemeanors: DVD: Caroline Aaron,Alan Alda,Martin S. Bergmann,Bill Bernstein,Claire Bloom,Donna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Crimes and Misdemeanors" is actually two movies rolled into one, as Allen masterfully intertwines two very different storylines, one a drama of tragic proportions, and the other, a lighter story with some classy comic moments.
		While the events leading to the `Crime' causes intense guilt and remorse on the part of Landau, his connection to the crime goes undetected by the police and he wakes up one morning with his sense of guilt lifted from his shoulders.
		The irony is that Allen's trivial misdemeanor is published by his loosing his wife, loosing his contract to do the documentary for the producer, and loosing his potential romantic interest (Farrow) to Alda.
	www.amazon.com /Crimes-Misdemeanors-Caroline-Aaron/dp/B00005AUJK (2280 words)

	Constitutional Rights Foundation--The Role of the Independent Counsel
		They are “treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” To be impeached and removed from office, the House and Senate must find that the official committed one of these acts.
		Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown.
		Judiciary Committee’s hearings, experts testified on what constituted “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The experts called by the Democrats argued that none of the allegations against the president rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” These experts echoed the reasoning found in the 1974 staff report and Professor Charles Black’s book on impeachment.
	www.crf-usa.org /impeachment/highcrimes.html (2591 words)

	Rightgrrl - High Crimes and Misdemeanors - by Cheri
		A crime is an offence against a public law.
		High Crime: An offense against a public law that is immediately noticable, conspicuous, or widely known.
		For example, murder, extortion and kidnapping are felonies; a minor fist fight is usually charged as a misdemeanor, and a speeding ticket is generally an infraction.
	www.rightgrrl.com /99grrls/February/cheri/highcrimes.html (963 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Crimes And Misdemeanors [1990]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Crimes and Misdemeanours is a film that manages to move gracefully between two very different (though ultimately, very serious) stories, whilst simultaneously juggling a tone that is both light and humours, but also bleak and profound.
		Crimes and Misdemeanours is really a perfect film (for me), and along with Love and Death, Annie Hall, Purple Rose of Cairo and Bullets Over Broadway, gives further proof of Allen's cinematic genius.
		He pulls it off though, and "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is one of the best films i've seen in a long time.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KIT3 (1579 words)

	Crimes and Misdemeanors - Rotten Tomatoes
		CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS is Woody Allen's most mature, most profound film.
		If Crimes and Misdemeanors isn't Woody Allen's best blending of drama and comedy, it's most certainly in the running.
		A relative of Hannah and Her Sisters in its duplex structure and of The Purple Rose of Cairo in its bitter theme, Crimes is two movies in one, a blend of Allen's satiric and pretentious dramatic styles.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/crimes_and_misdemeanors (585 words)

	High time - definition of 'high crimes and misdemeanors' - Scandal File National Review - FindArticles
		This article is adapted from her new book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Regnery).
		No, actually, those are "crimes." The "high crimes and misdemeanors" for which the President -- or any civil officer of the United States -- is to be impeached have nothing to do with the criminal law.
		There is, in fact, no such thing as a "high crime" or "high misdemeanor" in the criminal codes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v50/ai_21129268 (294 words)

	Crimes and Misdemeanors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crimes and Misdemeanors is a film written and directed by Woody Allen.
		Crimes and Misdemeanors at The Internet Movie Database
		Crimes and Misdemeanors • Alice ;• Shadows and Fog • Husbands and Wives ;• Manhattan Murder Mystery ;• Bullets Over Broadway • Don't Drink the Water ;• Mighty Aphrodite • Everyone Says I Love You • Deconstructing Harry ;• Celebrity ;• Sweet and Lowdown • Small Time Crooks • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ;• Hollywood Ending • Anything Else ;• Melinda and Melinda ;• Match Point ;• Scoop
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crimes_and_Misdemeanors (474 words)

	Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen Movie Review and Info
		Allen explores this complicated issue in the context of an extramarital affair that Landau's mistress (Anjelica Huston) threatens to expose, while developing a second story about a documentary filmmaker (Allen) who reluctantly makes a film about his brother-in-law (Alan Alda), a TV sitcom producer whose vanity is seemingly unlimited.
		From serious crimes to misdemeanors of personal behavior, Allen ties these stories together to create a provocative and unsettling study of divergent moralities and the price we're willing to pay to preserve our personal comfort and happiness.
		It's a sobering film, but a fascinating and funny one as well, unfolding like a thriller in which the question is not whodunit but rather, would you do it if you knew you could get away with it?
	www.woodyallenmovies.com /movies/crimesandmisdemeanors.htm (432 words)

	eBay - DVD: Crimes and Misdemeanors (UPC: 027616862662) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS is Woody Allen's most mature, most profound film.
		Crimes and Misdemeanors DVD Woody Allen NEW R1 WS
		Crimes & Misdemeanors is a Smart, Witty Commentary on Morality through Infedelity from Woody Allen helmed by Martin Landau's Riveting Performance.
	product.ebay.com /Crimes-and-Misdemeanors_UPC_027616862662_W0QQfvcsZ1177QQsoprZ3365890 (843 words)

	IT Business
		This is the only reasonable way to interpret the findings of a survey released by IBM on Monday in which 62 per cent of Canadian businesses said cybercrime proves more costly than physical crime.
		Most of them believe organized crime is replacing lone hackers, and there are fewer Canadian firms – 67 per cent – who believe they are protected against cybercrime versus 87 per cent in the United States.
		Though the survey respondents cited loss of revenue, customers and employee productivity as their main concerns, I suspect in many of these cases they haven’t yet had to quantify such losses in their own organizations.
	www.itbusiness.ca /it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=38717 (618 words)

	FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Article II: Annotations pg. 18 of 18
		765 High crimes and misdemeanors, however, is an undefined and indefinite phrase, which, in England, had comprehended conduct not constituting indictable offenses.
		The Johnson Impeachment.--President Johnson was impeached by the House on the ground that he had violated the ''Tenure of Office'' Act 775 by dismissing a Cabinet chief.
		But the phrase ''high Misdemeanors'' was replaced with ''other crimes,'' ''in order to comprehend all proper cases: it being doubtful whether 'high misdemeanor' had not a technical meaning too limited.'' Id., 443.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /data/constitution/article02/18.html (2762 words)

	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
		When both September (1988) and Another Woman (1988) bombed, Allen wisely decided to leaven the gloom and doom with sharp-edged comedy in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).
		Except for September and Another Woman, the 1980s were a golden time for Allen, who wrote and directed such winners as Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Zelig (1983), and the sweet nostalgia piece Radio Days (1987).
		After Crimes and Misdemeanors, she would make three more films with the director, including Husbands and Wives (1992), before their relationship exploded in ugly scandal.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=206&PID=10092743&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (614 words)

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