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, Band 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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... arguments may file written arguments at any time after 11 o'clock of Monday , the 27th instant , subject , however , to the twenty - first rule . Mr CONNESS . I wish to insert that language at 10 IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT .
... arguments may file written arguments at any time after 11 o'clock of Monday , the 27th instant , subject , however , to the twenty - first rule . Mr CONNESS . I wish to insert that language at 10 IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT .
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Mr CONNESS . I wish to insert that language at the beginning after the word " that , " so that it will read " that , subject to the twenty - first rule " so and so shall be done . Mr. HENDERSON . I suggest , after the words " oral ...
Mr CONNESS . I wish to insert that language at the beginning after the word " that , " so that it will read " that , subject to the twenty - first rule " so and so shall be done . Mr. HENDERSON . I suggest , after the words " oral ...
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... language : What will be the motives which the President can feel for the abuse of his power and the restraints that operate to prevent it ? In the first place , he will be impeachable by this house before the Senate for such an act of ...
... language : What will be the motives which the President can feel for the abuse of his power and the restraints that operate to prevent it ? In the first place , he will be impeachable by this house before the Senate for such an act of ...
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... language of the Constitution and laws of the United States , the term " removal from office " is anywhere used as the penalty for a crime . Of course that phrase must have the same construction , whether found in the Constitution ...
... language of the Constitution and laws of the United States , the term " removal from office " is anywhere used as the penalty for a crime . Of course that phrase must have the same construction , whether found in the Constitution ...
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... language ( with his quotations :) " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh , ' The tree is known by the fruit , ' are axiome which we have derived from the fountain of all truth . Actions speak louder than words , and it ...
... language ( with his quotations :) " Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh , ' The tree is known by the fruit , ' are axiome which we have derived from the fountain of all truth . Actions speak louder than words , and it ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 315 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the Courts. A Constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the Judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular Act proceeding from the Legislative body.
Seite 211 - Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the...
Seite 372 - 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.
Seite 121 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ;...
Seite 316 - If then the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution and not such ordinary act must govern the case to which they both apply.
Seite 353 - And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Seite 162 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. 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.
Seite 315 - That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected.
Seite 372 - 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.