Trial of Andrew Johnson: Arguments and final voteU.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 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 ;...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 263 - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.