Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment: ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 60 էջ |
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... George Mason , called for a privy council of six members - two each from the eastern , middle , and southern states - selected by the Senate for staggered six - year terms , with two leaving office every two years . 2 Farrand 537 , 542 ...
... George Mason , called for a privy council of six members - two each from the eastern , middle , and southern states - selected by the Senate for staggered six - year terms , with two leaving office every two years . 2 Farrand 537 , 542 ...
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... George Mason had replied to his earlier argument : Shall any man be above justice ? Above all shall that man be above it , who can commit the most extensive injustice ? When great crimes were committed he was for punishing the principal ...
... George Mason had replied to his earlier argument : Shall any man be above justice ? Above all shall that man be above it , who can commit the most extensive injustice ? When great crimes were committed he was for punishing the principal ...
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... George Mason objected that these grounds were too limited : Why is the provision restrained to Treason & bribery only ? Treason as defined in the Constitution will not reach many great and dangerous offenses . Hastings is not guilty of ...
... George Mason objected that these grounds were too limited : Why is the provision restrained to Treason & bribery only ? Treason as defined in the Constitution will not reach many great and dangerous offenses . Hastings is not guilty of ...
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... George Mason referred to it in the debates.49 Hamil- ton , in the Federalist No. 65 , referred to Great Britain as " the model from which [ impeachment ] has been borrowed . " Furthermore , the framers were well - educated men . Many ...
... George Mason referred to it in the debates.49 Hamil- ton , in the Federalist No. 65 , referred to Great Britain as " the model from which [ impeachment ] has been borrowed . " Furthermore , the framers were well - educated men . Many ...
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... Mason's suggestion to add " maladministration , " Madison's objection to it as " vague , " and Mason's substitution ... George Mason argued that the President might use his pardoning power to " pardon crimes which were advised by himself ...
... Mason's suggestion to add " maladministration , " Madison's objection to it as " vague , " and Mason's substitution ... George Mason argued that the President might use his pardoning power to " pardon crimes which were advised by himself ...
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Էջ 34 - Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honour, Trust, or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishment according to Law.
Էջ 46 - Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach the Congress of the United States, and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States...
Էջ 45 - States, unmindful of the high duties of his office, of his oath of office, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and contrary to the provisions of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices...
Էջ 25 - preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" to the best of his ability. The...
Էջ 30 - It cannot be possible that a man shall have sufficiently distinguished himself to merit this high trust, without having his character proclaimed by fame throughout the Empire. As to the danger from an unimpeachable magistrate, he could not regard it as formidable. There must be certain great officers of state, a minister of finance, of war, of foreign affairs, &c. These, he presumes, will exercise their functions in subordination to the Executive, and will be amenable, by impeachment, to the public...
Էջ 28 - ... removable by Congress, on application by a majority of the Executives of the several States; that the Executive, besides their general authority to execute the Federal acts, ought to appoint all Federal officers not otherwise provided for, and to direct all military operations; provided, that none of the persons composing the Federal Executive shall, on any occasion, take command...
Էջ 11 - levying war,' says Chief Justice Marshall (Burr's Trial, vol. 2, p. 402), is not for the first time applied to treason by the constitution of the United States. It is a technical term. It is used in a very old statute of that country whose language is our language, and whose laws form the substratum of our laws. It is scarcely conceivable that the term was not employed by the framers of our constitution, in the sense which has been affixed to it by those from whom we borrowed it.
Էջ 7 - A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions; are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad, and are almost always a cloak to his faults.
Էջ 24 - While it may be argued that some articles of impeachment have charged conduct that constituted crime and thus that criminality is an essential ingredient, or that some have charged conduct that was not criminal and thus that criminality is not essential, the fact remains that in the English practice and in several of the American impeachments the criminality issue was not raised at all. The emphasis has been on the significant effects of the conduct — undermining the integrity of office, disregard...
Էջ 16 - Columbia, unmindful of the high duties of his office, of his oath of office, and of the requirement of the Constitution that he should take care that the laws be faithfully executed, did unlawfully and in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States issue an order in writing for the removal of Edwin M. Stanton from the office of Secretary for the Department of War, said Edwin M.