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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... precedents which supported the position that those allegations fell well within the definition of impeachable offenses . The situation before us today is very different from Watergate . We are not contemplating impeaching a President ...
... precedents which supported the position that those allegations fell well within the definition of impeachable offenses . The situation before us today is very different from Watergate . We are not contemplating impeaching a President ...
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... precedents of impeachment , not one of Ken Starr's allegations is an impeachable offense . Further- more , most of the ... precedent that will forever weaken the institution of the presidency . The presidency was intended to be free from ...
... precedents of impeachment , not one of Ken Starr's allegations is an impeachable offense . Further- more , most of the ... precedent that will forever weaken the institution of the presidency . The presidency was intended to be free from ...
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... precedents for both . Today , we will hear from roughly an equal number of witnesses on different sides of this issue , but the American public should not be fooled by the hearing's illusion that the constitutional experts are equally ...
... precedents for both . Today , we will hear from roughly an equal number of witnesses on different sides of this issue , but the American public should not be fooled by the hearing's illusion that the constitutional experts are equally ...
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... precedents of impeachment , I believe that we will conclude that the allegations outlined in the Starr report do not meet the constitutional standards for impeachment and we will be able to bring this inquiry to a close . Further , Mr ...
... precedents of impeachment , I believe that we will conclude that the allegations outlined in the Starr report do not meet the constitutional standards for impeachment and we will be able to bring this inquiry to a close . Further , Mr ...
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... precedents which are sparse do not give us any real guidance as to what constitutes an impeachable offense . So each of us in our own conscience , in our own mind , in our own heart , after much study , had to decide for ourselves what ...
... precedents which are sparse do not give us any real guidance as to what constitutes an impeachable offense . So each of us in our own conscience , in our own mind , in our own heart , after much study , had to decide for ourselves what ...
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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.