Trial of Andrew Johnson: Arguments and final voteU.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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... bill . I - 24 , 35 I - 35 ..I - 35 B , message of President , December 12 , 1867 , aunouncing suspension of Secretary Stanton . C , address to President , by Hon . Reverdy Johnson , August 18 , 1866 , communicating proceedings of ...
... bill . I - 24 , 35 I - 35 ..I - 35 B , message of President , December 12 , 1867 , aunouncing suspension of Secretary Stanton . C , address to President , by Hon . Reverdy Johnson , August 18 , 1866 , communicating proceedings of ...
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... bill of attainder , has limited impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors to those acts only which have been declared to be such crimes and misdemeanors by pre - existing laws ; and , therefore , in this country , whatever might be ...
... bill of attainder , has limited impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors to those acts only which have been declared to be such crimes and misdemeanors by pre - existing laws ; and , therefore , in this country , whatever might be ...
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... bill that should pass the Congress , ( and there not be a two - thirds vote against his veto , ) and thereby defeat all appropriations , so as to completely block the wheels of gov- ernment , that he could not be impeached for an ...
... bill that should pass the Congress , ( and there not be a two - thirds vote against his veto , ) and thereby defeat all appropriations , so as to completely block the wheels of gov- ernment , that he could not be impeached for an ...
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... and by no legal interpretation can it be held to do so . When the bill for organizing the Department of Foreign Affairs was under discussion , the original draft read " to be removed 34 IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT .
... and by no legal interpretation can it be held to do so . When the bill for organizing the Department of Foreign Affairs was under discussion , the original draft read " to be removed 34 IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT .
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... bill , as amended , passed the House by a vote of 29 to 22. In the Senate the bill was carried by the casting vote of the Vice - President . It is an easily understood principle that where two or more unite in an act they may delegate ...
... bill , as amended , passed the House by a vote of 29 to 22. In the Senate the bill was carried by the casting vote of the Vice - President . It is an easily understood principle that where two or more unite in an act they may delegate ...
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Página 70 - 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.
Página 131 - 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 ;...
Página 146 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 384 - 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.
Página 327 - 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.
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Página 327 - Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void...
Página 221 - Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the...
Página 172 - 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.
Página 329 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.