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, Volum 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 |
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... statute against usury had not then been passed , and there were various other charges against the parties which formed no legal offence . The case was one in which merchants were , among other things , charged with compounding duties ...
... statute against usury had not then been passed , and there were various other charges against the parties which formed no legal offence . The case was one in which merchants were , among other things , charged with compounding duties ...
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... statute of the United States has in any mauner defined any crimes except treason and bribery to be high crimes and misdemeanors , and as such impeachable . In what manner , then , are they to be ascertained ? Is the silence of the statute ...
... statute of the United States has in any mauner defined any crimes except treason and bribery to be high crimes and misdemeanors , and as such impeachable . In what manner , then , are they to be ascertained ? Is the silence of the statute ...
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... statute , or at common law . There is force and speciousness , to say no more , in this view , and it deserves a careful and candid consideration . The weight of the argument is derived from the suggestion that the judg- ment following ...
... statute , or at common law . There is force and speciousness , to say no more , in this view , and it deserves a careful and candid consideration . The weight of the argument is derived from the suggestion that the judg- ment following ...
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... statute law , it behooves us next to inquire what have been the definitions of crimes and misdemeanors as used by writers of acknowledged authority . It is by the light of these definitions that we are to inquire and determine what cul ...
... statute law , it behooves us next to inquire what have been the definitions of crimes and misdemeanors as used by writers of acknowledged authority . It is by the light of these definitions that we are to inquire and determine what cul ...
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... statute - books and compare the laws as they now stand , and as they stood when Congress spoke the department into existence by four short sec- tions in the act of 1789. You will find that there is scarcely a vestige of the act of 1789 ...
... statute - books and compare the laws as they now stand , and as they stood when Congress spoke the department into existence by four short sec- tions in the act of 1789. You will find that there is scarcely a vestige of the act of 1789 ...
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Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, Before the ..., Volum 2 Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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Side 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.
Side 315 - 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.
Side 211 - Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the...
Side 372 - 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.
Side 121 - 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 ;...
Side 316 - 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.
Side 353 - 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.
Side 162 - 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.
Side 315 - 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.
Side 372 - 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.