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, 2. sējumsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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375. lappuse - an ordinary act. 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. If
254. lappuse - war hath smoothed his wrinkled front, And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But lo ! a hand is laid upon his shoulder, which startles him
63. lappuse - O Judgment thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason." The defence have not, by their evidence, contradicted what we have proven, but have only strengthened our case. There has been no proof adduced on the part of the defendant that either will justify or excuse his unlawful acts. The evidence of General Sherman, and all others put
156. lappuse - quotes the following words from the act creating the Treasury Department : " That whenever the Secretary shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy," &c., and says, " This amounted to a legislative construction," &c., as quoted by the President in
379. lappuse - of the United States, with intent to defame the said government or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States
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319. lappuse - Cranch, pp. 175, 178,) the Supreme Court of the United States, speaking through the great Chief Justice Marshall, said : The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States ; but happily not of
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