Impeachment; Selected Materials: Ninety-third Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 718 páginas |
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amendment Andrew Johnson Answer appointed Archbald articles of impeachment bond Buckalew Calhoun charge Charles Swayne Chief Justice civil officers committee Congress Conkling Constitution contract counsel court crimes and misdemeanors criminal Department of War desired by one-fifth district Drake duties Elijah Mix Engineer Department English entered the Senate Executive George W Goldsborough Government guilty Halsted L high crimes high misdemeanor House of Representatives indictable judge as aforesaid Judge Ritter judicial letter Lorenzo Thomas Major Vandeventer managers ment Messrs misdemeanor in office Mix's Morrill of Maine Morrill of Vermont motion nays being desired o'clock Old Point Comfort Patterson of Tennessee peachment perch person President upon articles proceedings Question received removed from office respondent Rip Raps Secretary Secretary of War Senate Senate Chamber Senators present Stanton stone submitted Sumner supra note Thomas tion took the seats treason trial Trumbull United unlawfully violation voted Williams yeas and nays
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Página 695 - Many forms of conduct permissible in a workaday world for those acting at arm's length, are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Página 47 - ... for any reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment, the Governor may remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of each House of the General Assembly.
Página 238 - That every person holding any civil office to which he has been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and every person who shall hereafter be appointed to any such office, and shall become duly qualified to act therein, is, and shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like manner appointed and duly qualified, except as herein otherwise provided...
Página 263 - ... let me remind you that, in early times, no States cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution, hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support.
Página 223 - ... and authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws' of the United States, you are hereby removed from office as Secretary for the Department of War, and your functions as such will terminate upon receipt of this communication.
Página 23 - This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful delinquents.
Página 214 - An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1867 ; and, also, to prevent the execution of an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States...
Página 615 - The only honest answer is that an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history...
Página 238 - ... done by this respondent, as President of the United States, to cause the said Stanton to surrender the said office. This respondent was also then aware that by the first section of "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices,
Página 132 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.