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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... learned and honorable counsel for the defence , that we speak not only for our- selves but for the great body of the people when we say that we regret this occa- sion , and we regret the necessity which has devolved this duty upon us ...
... learned and honorable counsel for the defence , that we speak not only for our- selves but for the great body of the people when we say that we regret this occa- sion , and we regret the necessity which has devolved this duty upon us ...
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... learned in the law . Mr. Madison , in discussing the power of the President , used the following 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 ...
... learned in the law . Mr. Madison , in discussing the power of the President , used the following 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 ...
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... learned attorney general had held that no impeachment could lie unless some law was violated ; but the opinion was contrary to the doctiine laid down by the greatest writers on the law of impeachment . Lord Coke did not so limit the ...
... learned attorney general had held that no impeachment could lie unless some law was violated ; but the opinion was contrary to the doctiine laid down by the greatest writers on the law of impeachment . Lord Coke did not so limit the ...
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... learned counsel as being any excuse whatever for his violations of law , we may here get some clue to the hesitancy in the trial of Jefferson Davis , the great criminal of the rebellion , ( inasmuch as he certainly believed he was doing ...
... learned counsel as being any excuse whatever for his violations of law , we may here get some clue to the hesitancy in the trial of Jefferson Davis , the great criminal of the rebellion , ( inasmuch as he certainly believed he was doing ...
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... learned gentleman . What says history upon this subject ? Hamilton said , in No. 77 of the Federalist : It has been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co - operation of the Senate , in the business of ...
... learned gentleman . What says history upon this subject ? Hamilton said , in No. 77 of the Federalist : It has been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the co - operation of the Senate , in the business of ...
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70. lappuse - 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.
315. lappuse - 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.
211. lappuse - Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the...
372. lappuse - 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.
121. lappuse - 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 ;...
316. lappuse - 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.
353. lappuse - 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.
162. lappuse - 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.
315. lappuse - 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.
372. lappuse - 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.