Trial of Andrew Johnson: Arguments and final voteU.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - Impeachments |
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... determine its value , and to be sifted and weighed in the final judgment : offered . tabled , ( yeas 33 , nays 11 ) ... determined by a majority of members present : offered and laid over .. that Mr. Nelson , one of counsel , having used ...
... determine its value , and to be sifted and weighed in the final judgment : offered . tabled , ( yeas 33 , nays 11 ) ... determined by a majority of members present : offered and laid over .. that Mr. Nelson , one of counsel , having used ...
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... determined not to address the Senate ; that three others of the President's coun- sel had assumed , with our consent , the management and direction of the case , and that in our arrangement it was left to them to make the argument ...
... determined not to address the Senate ; that three others of the President's coun- sel had assumed , with our consent , the management and direction of the case , and that in our arrangement it was left to them to make the argument ...
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... determining this general issue senators must consider the sufficiency or insufficiency in law or in fact of every article of accusation . But the insufficiency which they are to consider is not the technical insufficiency by which ...
... determining this general issue senators must consider the sufficiency or insufficiency in law or in fact of every article of accusation . But the insufficiency which they are to consider is not the technical insufficiency by which ...
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... determine what cul- pability , if any , attaches to each and all of the acts by the President of which we complain , and how far he may palliate or justify the act after having admitted its performance . These which I shall read are but ...
... determine what cul- pability , if any , attaches to each and all of the acts by the President of which we complain , and how far he may palliate or justify the act after having admitted its performance . These which I shall read are but ...
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... DETERMINED . When the unlawful act is shown , how , then , do we gather the intention ? It can only be done from all the circumstances surrounding the commission of the act . I believe it is a rule , both in law and morals , that every ...
... DETERMINED . When the unlawful act is shown , how , then , do we gather the intention ? It can only be done from all the circumstances surrounding the commission of the act . I believe it is a rule , both in law and morals , that every ...
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