said this, shall the man who has practiced corruption and by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment, by repeating his guilt. so it's not just the corruption they're worried about it's if you get corrupt enough that you can corrupt the electoral process to get yourself into power again. >> exactly, so that mason quote comes in the middle of this very vibrant debate about impeachment. initially in the early drafts there was a provision for impeachment for malpractice or neglect of duty. but mason and others were so worried about corruption, they said, no, we have to make sure that we're really clear that we can have impeachment for bribery and treason and then add a general phrase about maladministration, and madison said let's clean that up.