Abstract
This essay examines the appeal to proportion exemplified in the rhetoric of the Clinton impeachment process, where it emerged in varied forms. As an appeal to judgment, it surfaced sometimes in a strict analogical formulation, or as a bivalent weighting of alternatives, or as an appropriate blending of many and incommensurate elements. Sometimes it referred to the disposition of the case, to the process or deliberation, or to the faculty of judgment. Its polymorphous presence is not accidental, for proportion acts in this discourse at a deep ontological level, linking the disposition of the facts of the case and the disposition of judgment itself.
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