History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1866-1872

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Harper & Bros., 1906
 

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Página 341 - His Majesty the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil...
Página 113 - This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States, for the time being.
Página 129 - Senator , how say you? Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, guilty or not guilty of a high misdemeanor, as charged in this article...
Página 157 - State, who are entitled to vote by the constitution thereof herein recognized, except as a punishment for such -crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted...
Página 221 - ... the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all the obligations of the United States...
Página 54 - The Congress is the legislative department of the government; the President is the executive department. Neither can be restrained in its action by the judicial department ; though the acts of both, when performed, are, in proper cases, subject to its cognizance.
Página 91 - States, we do impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors in office ; and we do further inform the Senate that the House of Representatives will in due time exhibit particular articles of impeachment against him, and make good the same; and in their name we DO DEMAND that the Senate take order for the appearance of the said Andrew Johnson to answer to said impeachment.
Página 122 - Constitution, the act as it passed has always been considered as a full expression of the sense of the Legislature on this important part of the American Constitution.
Página 400 - ... recognizing that there are in our midst honest but irreconcilable differences of opinion with regard to the respective systems of protection and free trade, we remit the discussion of the subject to the people in their Congressional districts, and to the decision of Congress thereon, wholly free from executive interference or dictation.
Página 3 - States, nor for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United States; that I have never been a member of any State legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States...

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