Background and History of Impeachment: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, November 9, 1998U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 388 halaman |
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... matter of the highest impor- tance and should be addressed with the utmost care and delibera- tions . Today's long - awaited hearing is more than a platform for learned scholars to pontificate about the Constitution . It is the Ju ...
... matter of the highest impor- tance and should be addressed with the utmost care and delibera- tions . Today's long - awaited hearing is more than a platform for learned scholars to pontificate about the Constitution . It is the Ju ...
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... matter , including the President . I would remind my colleagues that while the President is not above the law , neither is he below the law . He is entitled to the same fairness and due process as every other citizen . What does due ...
... matter , including the President . I would remind my colleagues that while the President is not above the law , neither is he below the law . He is entitled to the same fairness and due process as every other citizen . What does due ...
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... matter will remain part and parcel of our legal system for years to come , damaging or benefiting us regardless of the political party to which we belong . All of us who attended church growing up are familiar with the story of Abraham ...
... matter will remain part and parcel of our legal system for years to come , damaging or benefiting us regardless of the political party to which we belong . All of us who attended church growing up are familiar with the story of Abraham ...
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... matter to some , but as an attorney who has rep- resented plaintiffs in a civil rights litigation , I am concerned about tipping the scales of justice in favor of the wealthy and the power- ful . My final concern deals with the question ...
... matter to some , but as an attorney who has rep- resented plaintiffs in a civil rights litigation , I am concerned about tipping the scales of justice in favor of the wealthy and the power- ful . My final concern deals with the question ...
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... matter in adjudication , that " is as much a violation of the oath , as to testify a positive false- hood . " It is no excuse for the witness to say he was not forthcoming " because it was never asked of me . " An oath obliges to tell ...
... matter in adjudication , that " is as much a violation of the oath , as to testify a positive false- hood . " It is no excuse for the witness to say he was not forthcoming " because it was never asked of me . " An oath obliges to tell ...
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Halaman 259 - Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth.
Halaman 124 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who that is a sincere friend to it can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
Halaman 205 - SECTION 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the power and duties of his office...
Halaman 35 - 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.
Halaman 259 - In the application of a constitution, therefore, our contemplation cannot be only of what has been but of what may be.
Halaman 124 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained •without religion.
Halaman 62 - The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients. The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election: these are wholly new discoveries, or have made their principal progress towards...
Halaman 248 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Halaman 268 - Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Halaman 119 - The prosecution of them for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties, more or less friendly, or inimical, to the accused.