A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 372 páginas |
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Página 62
... impeachment . " Each of these privileges is of great practical importance . In Great Britain , the Speaker is elected by the House of Commons ; but he must be approved by the King ; and a similar power of approval belonged to some of ...
... impeachment . " Each of these privileges is of great practical importance . In Great Britain , the Speaker is elected by the House of Commons ; but he must be approved by the King ; and a similar power of approval belonged to some of ...
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... impeachment against any person , for any gross misdemeanor , before the House of Lords , which is the court of the highest criminal jurisdiction in the realm . The articles of impeachment , are a sort of indictment ; and the House , in ...
... impeachment against any person , for any gross misdemeanor , before the House of Lords , which is the court of the highest criminal jurisdiction in the realm . The articles of impeachment , are a sort of indictment ; and the House , in ...
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... impeached . In the last place , a Judge may be the very party impeached ; and , under such circumstances , a court of law may be pre- sumed to labor under as strong feelings and sympathies for the accused , as any other body . It 7 ...
... impeached . In the last place , a Judge may be the very party impeached ; and , under such circumstances , a court of law may be pre- sumed to labor under as strong feelings and sympathies for the accused , as any other body . It 7 ...
Página 78
... impeachment of one of its own members for an official misdemeanor . So that , to say the least , the tri- bunal selected by the Constitution is as unobjectionable , as any , which could be pointed out . § 114. The mode of trial is also ...
... impeachment of one of its own members for an official misdemeanor . So that , to say the least , the tri- bunal selected by the Constitution is as unobjectionable , as any , which could be pointed out . § 114. The mode of trial is also ...
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... impeachment.- " Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification to hold and en- joy any office of honor , trust , or profit , under the United States . But the party ...
... impeachment.- " Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification to hold and en- joy any office of honor , trust , or profit , under the United States . But the party ...
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Página 334 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Página 300 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place, or places, as the Congress may by law have directed.
Página 283 - ... appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Página 110 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Página 140 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Página 273 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Página 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states...
Página 309 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your National Union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable, attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Página 284 - Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present, shall refuse to strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of Congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Página 336 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.