A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 372 էջ |
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... crimes , the restriction of the punishment to mere removal and disqualification from office , seems appropriate , and suffi- cient . Probably the abuses , to which an unlimited pow- er of punishment might lead in times of popular excite ...
... crimes , the restriction of the punishment to mere removal and disqualification from office , seems appropriate , and suffi- cient . Probably the abuses , to which an unlimited pow- er of punishment might lead in times of popular excite ...
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... crimes and misdemeanors . " § 119. From this clause , it appears , that the power of impeachment does not extend to any , but civil officers of the United States , including the President , and Vice President . In England , it extends ...
... crimes and misdemeanors . " § 119. From this clause , it appears , that the power of impeachment does not extend to any , but civil officers of the United States , including the President , and Vice President . In England , it extends ...
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... are , " treason , bribery , and other high crimes and mis- demeanors . " No person can reasonably doubt the pro- priety of the removal , and disqualification from office , of a person , who is guilty of treason , which IMPEACHMENTS . 83.
... are , " treason , bribery , and other high crimes and mis- demeanors . " No person can reasonably doubt the pro- priety of the removal , and disqualification from office , of a person , who is guilty of treason , which IMPEACHMENTS . 83.
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... crimes . What is the crime of treason ? What is the crime of bribery ? What are high crimes and misdemeanors in the sense of the Constitution ? For the definition of treason we may resort to the Consti- tution itself . For the ...
... crimes . What is the crime of treason ? What is the crime of bribery ? What are high crimes and misdemeanors in the sense of the Constitution ? For the definition of treason we may resort to the Consti- tution itself . For the ...
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... crimes and misdemeanors , is to be ascertained by a recurrence to that great basis of American jurisprudence . The reasoning , by which the power of the House of Representatives to punish for contempts ( which are breaches of privileges ...
... crimes and misdemeanors , is to be ascertained by a recurrence to that great basis of American jurisprudence . The reasoning , by which the power of the House of Representatives to punish for contempts ( which are breaches of privileges ...
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Էջ 334 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Էջ 300 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place, or places, as the Congress may by law have directed.
Էջ 283 - ... appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Էջ 110 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Էջ 140 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Էջ 273 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Էջ 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states...
Էջ 309 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your National Union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable, attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Էջ 284 - Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present, shall refuse to strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of Congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Էջ 336 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.