Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Հատոր 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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... statute against usury had not then been passed , and there were various other charges against the parties which formed no legal offence . The case was one in which merchants were , among other things , charged with compounding duties ...
... statute against usury had not then been passed , and there were various other charges against the parties which formed no legal offence . The case was one in which merchants were , among other things , charged with compounding duties ...
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... statute of the United States has in any manner defined any crimes except treason and bribery to be high crimes and misdemeanors , and as such impeachable . In what manner , then , are they to be ascertained ? Is the silence of the statute ...
... statute of the United States has in any manner defined any crimes except treason and bribery to be high crimes and misdemeanors , and as such impeachable . In what manner , then , are they to be ascertained ? Is the silence of the statute ...
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... statute , or at common law . There is force and speciousness , to say no more , in this view , and it deserves a careful and candid consideration . The weight of the argument is derived from the suggestion that the judg- ment following ...
... statute , or at common law . There is force and speciousness , to say no more , in this view , and it deserves a careful and candid consideration . The weight of the argument is derived from the suggestion that the judg- ment following ...
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... statutes , it is much more a just rule in searching for the mean- ing of a fundamental law . I insist that the Constitution is perfectly clear and unambiguous upon the subject of appointment . There should be no division of opinion on ...
... statutes , it is much more a just rule in searching for the mean- ing of a fundamental law . I insist that the Constitution is perfectly clear and unambiguous upon the subject of appointment . There should be no division of opinion on ...
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... statute - books and compare the laws as they now stand , and as they stood when Congress spoke the department into existence by four short sec- tions in the act of 1789. You will find that there is scarcely a vestige of the act of 1789 ...
... statute - books and compare the laws as they now stand , and as they stood when Congress spoke the department into existence by four short sec- tions in the act of 1789. You will find that there is scarcely a vestige of the act of 1789 ...
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Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the ..., Հատոր 2 Andrew Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1868 |
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Էջ 70 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Էջ 128 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Էջ 138 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Էջ 319 - Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
Էջ 321 - Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Էջ 378 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Էջ 328 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Էջ 320 - If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law?
Էջ 213 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Էջ 378 - Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.