<P> In the United Kingdom, it is the House of Commons that holds the power of initiating an impeachment . Any member may make accusations of any crime . The member must support the charges with evidence and move for impeachment . If the Commons carries the motion, the mover receives orders to go to the bar at the House of Lords and to impeach the accused "in the name of the House of Commons, and all the commons of the United Kingdom ." </P> <P> The mover must tell the Lords that the House of Commons will, in due time, exhibit particular articles against the accused, and make good the same . The Commons then usually selects a committee to draw up the charges and create an "Article of Impeachment" for each . (In the case of Warren Hastings, however, the drawing up of the articles preceded the formal impeachment .) Once the committee has delivered the articles to the Lords, replies go between the accused and the Commons via the Lords . If the Commons have impeached a peer, the Lords take custody of the accused; otherwise, custody goes to Black Rod . The accused remains in custody unless the Lords allow bail . The Lords set a date for the trial while the Commons appoints managers, who act as prosecutors in the trial . The accused may defend by counsel . </P> <P> The House of Lords hears the case . The procedure used to be that the Lord Chancellor presided (or the Lord High Steward if the defendant was a peer); but this was when the Lord Chancellor was both the Lords' presiding officer and head of the judiciary of England and Wales . Since both these roles were removed from that office by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which created the Lord Speaker to preside over the Lords and made the Lord Chief Justice head of the judiciary, it is not certain who would preside over an impeachment trial today . If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a "Court of the Lord High Steward" instead of the House of Lords (even if the defendant is not a peer). The differences between this court and the House of Lords are that in the House all of the peers are judges of both law and fact, whereas in the Court the Lord High Steward is the sole judge of law and the peers decide the facts only; and the bishops are not entitled to sit and vote in the Court . Traditionally, peers would wear their parliamentary robes during the hearings . </P> <P> The hearing resembles an ordinary trial: both sides may call witnesses and present evidence . At the end of the hearing the lords vote on the verdict, which is decided by a simple majority, one charge at a time . Upon being called, a peer must rise and declare "guilty, upon my honour" or "not guilty, upon my honour". After voting on all of the articles has taken place, and if the Lords find the defendant guilty, the Commons may move for judgment; the Lords may not declare the punishment until the Commons have so moved . The Lords may then decide whatever punishment they find fit, within the law . A royal pardon cannot excuse the defendant from trial, but a pardon may reprieve a convicted defendant . However, a pardon cannot override a decision to remove the defendant from the public office they hold . </P>

What type of vote is required in order to impeach (and not convict) the president