A View of the State of Parties in the United States of America: Being an Attempt to Account for the Present Ascendancy of the Anti-English, Or Democratic Party, in that Country; in Two Letters to a Friend

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J. Ballantyne and Company, 1812 - 167 páginas
 

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Página 139 - ... the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper ; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States. SECT. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE III. SECT. 1. The judicial...
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Página 137 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state.
Página 144 - ... an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.
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Página 159 - So far from fighting for the liberties of the world, t in- standard of freedom had never been raised in any country without her attempting to pull it down. If it was not foreign to his purpose, he could trace her footsteps, wherever she moved, marked by blood and desolation ; all the miseries of war and revengeful massacre have travelled in her train into every region inhabited by man. For whose fell cupidity were so many human hecaombs sacrificed in India?

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