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 ConstitutionHarper & Brothers, 1847 - 372 páginas |
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Página 62
... impeachment . ” Each of these privileges is of great practical importance . In Great Britain , the Speaker is elected by the House of Commons ; but he must be approved by the King ; and a similar power of approval belonged to some of ...
... impeachment . ” Each of these privileges is of great practical importance . In Great Britain , the Speaker is elected by the House of Commons ; but he must be approved by the King ; and a similar power of approval belonged to some of ...
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... impeachment against any person , for any gross misdemeanor , before the House of Lords , which is the court of the highest criminal jurisdiction in the realm . The articles of impeachment , are a sort of indictment ; and the House , in ...
... impeachment against any person , for any gross misdemeanor , before the House of Lords , which is the court of the highest criminal jurisdiction in the realm . The articles of impeachment , are a sort of indictment ; and the House , in ...
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... impeached . In the last place , a Judge may be the very party impeached ; and , under such circumstances , a court of law may be pre- sumed to labor under as strong feelings and sympathies for the accused , as any other body . It 7 ...
... impeached . In the last place , a Judge may be the very party impeached ; and , under such circumstances , a court of law may be pre- sumed to labor under as strong feelings and sympathies for the accused , as any other body . It 7 ...
Página 78
... impeachment of one of its own members for an official misdemeanor . So that , to say the least , the tri- bunal selected by the Constitution is as unobjectionable , as any , which could be pointed out . § 114. The mode of trial is also ...
... impeachment of one of its own members for an official misdemeanor . So that , to say the least , the tri- bunal selected by the Constitution is as unobjectionable , as any , which could be pointed out . § 114. The mode of trial is also ...
Página 79
... impeachment . " Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification to hold and en- joy any office of honor , trust , or profit , under the United States . But the party ...
... impeachment . " Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification to hold and en- joy any office of honor , trust , or profit , under the United States . But the party ...
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Página 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...
Página 300 - ... 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.
Página 112 - 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.
Página 142 - 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.
Página 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...
Página 286 - 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...
Página 288 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses; to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...
Página 319 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 321 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Página 286 - ... judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection,...