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, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - Impeachments |
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... express provision on the subject . I am , therefore , of opinion that it is competent for Con- gress to decide by law , as one qualification of the tenure of office , that the incumbent shall remain in place till the President shall ...
... express provision on the subject . I am , therefore , of opinion that it is competent for Con- gress to decide by law , as one qualification of the tenure of office , that the incumbent shall remain in place till the President shall ...
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... express my own opinion . Q. Did you then withdraw ? -A . I then withdrew . I have said that this testimony , standing alone , bears upon its face proof of guilt , but we are not permitted to view it from so narrow a standpoint . It is ...
... express my own opinion . Q. Did you then withdraw ? -A . I then withdrew . I have said that this testimony , standing alone , bears upon its face proof of guilt , but we are not permitted to view it from so narrow a standpoint . It is ...
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... express authority granted in the Constitution . Is this authority to be surrendered ? Is this power of the Sen- ate , this prerogative we may almost call it , to be abandoned ? Has the country , has the Senate , in the exercise of its ...
... express authority granted in the Constitution . Is this authority to be surrendered ? Is this power of the Sen- ate , this prerogative we may almost call it , to be abandoned ? Has the country , has the Senate , in the exercise of its ...
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... express power granted . The single instance of a denial of power to the President is in that provision of the Constitution wherein he is author- ized " to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in ...
... express power granted . The single instance of a denial of power to the President is in that provision of the Constitution wherein he is author- ized " to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in ...
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... express the practical magnitude of the subject . Moreover , this claim was never asserted by any President , or by any public man , from the beginning of the government until the present time . It is in violation also of the act of July ...
... express the practical magnitude of the subject . Moreover , this claim was never asserted by any President , or by any public man , from the beginning of the government until the present time . It is in violation also of the act of July ...
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Page 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.
Page 128 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 138 - 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.
Page 319 - Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
Page 321 - 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.
Page 378 - 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.
Page 328 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 320 - If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law?
Page 213 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 378 - 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.