The argument concedes too much. If the Assembly has the
power of impeachment one moment of time in all the year, it has
it and may exercise it at any moment in all the year, unless there
is somewhere else in the Constitution a limitation. The fact
that the Governor has called an extraordinary session of the Legis-
lature, or of the Senate, does not and cannot take this jurisdiction
away. There is no preference in the Constitution of one time
over another. Unless the Constitution itself forbids the exercise
of such power of impeachment during some particular portion of
the time, unless it has formulated some rules of procedure, or
authorized some person or body, other than the Assembly, to do
so, then it rests that at any time and at all times, under such rules
of procedure as it sees fit to use, the Assembly may proceed to
the exercise of its unlimited power of impeachment granted by
section 13 of article 6, the jurisdiction to impeach being al-
ways in the Assembly, whether it be in general session or extraor-
dinary session.
That being so, every member of the Legislature is in law bound
to know that the subject may come up at any time when the mem-
bers of the Legislature are together, without any notice whatever.
