Report of the Trial of James H. Peck, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri, Before the Senate of the United States on an Impeachment Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him for High Misdemeanors in OfficeHilliard, Gray and Company, 1833 - Počet stran: 592 |
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... remark in censure of the honorable committee ; on the contrary , considering the proceeding , as they manifestly seemed to do , as being analogous to an inquiry by a grand jury , and to be governed by the same rules , your memo- rialist ...
... remark in censure of the honorable committee ; on the contrary , considering the proceeding , as they manifestly seemed to do , as being analogous to an inquiry by a grand jury , and to be governed by the same rules , your memo- rialist ...
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... remark . But it is proper to remark that it called for no common degree of constitutional firmness , as well as calmness , for a Judge to keep his balance against such an array of power ; and that it was not in such a situation , nor in ...
... remark . But it is proper to remark that it called for no common degree of constitutional firmness , as well as calmness , for a Judge to keep his balance against such an array of power ; and that it was not in such a situation , nor in ...
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... remark that counsel will not be excluded from again stirring any of the points which have been here decided , when they may hereafter arise in any other cause . " No man of ordinary intelligence could possibly have been mistaken in the ...
... remark that counsel will not be excluded from again stirring any of the points which have been here decided , when they may hereafter arise in any other cause . " No man of ordinary intelligence could possibly have been mistaken in the ...
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... remark , that the word mercedes occurs in the preamble to the royal regulation of 1754 , of which there is a translation in the appendix to the land laws , compiled under the resolution of this House , page 973 , and where it will be ...
... remark , that the word mercedes occurs in the preamble to the royal regulation of 1754 , of which there is a translation in the appendix to the land laws , compiled under the resolution of this House , page 973 , and where it will be ...
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... remark , that there is cer- tainly no act of Congress which would authorize the confirmation of the present claim , or any part thereof . Now , the statement presents the case , as if the acts of Congress had been shown to the court ...
... remark , that there is cer- tainly no act of Congress which would authorize the confirmation of the present claim , or any part thereof . Now , the statement presents the case , as if the acts of Congress had been shown to the court ...
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Strana 294 - The fundamental principle of the Revolution was, that the Colonies were co-ordinate members with each other and with Great Britain, of an empire united by a common executive sovereign, but not united by any common legislative sovereign. The legislative power was maintained to be as complete in each American Parliament, as in the British Parliament. And the royal prerogative was in force in each Colony by virtue of its acknowledging the King for its executive magistrate, as it was in Great Britain...
Strana 502 - To fine for contempt, imprison for contumacy, enforce the observance of order, etc., are powers which cannot be dispensed with in a court, because they are necessary to the exercise of all others ; and so far our courts no doubt possess powers not immediately derived from statute ; but all exercise of criminal jurisdiction in common law cases we are of opinion is not within their implied powers.
Strana 337 - Nothing is more incumbent upon Courts of Justice, than to preserve their proceedings from being misrepresented ; nor is there anything of more pernicious consequence, than to prejudice the minds of the public against persons concerned as parties in causes, before the cause is finally heard . . . There are three different sorts of contempt.
Strana 298 - But if there is one maxim which necessarily rides over all others, in the practical application of government, it is, that the public functionaries must be left at liberty to exercise the powers which the people have intrusted to them. The interests and dignity of those who created them require the exertion of the powers indispensable to the attainment of the ends of their creation.
Strana 47 - House having resolved that he be impeached of " high misdemeanors in office" (Journal, 1, 21, pp. 565, 566), it Committee ap- was ordered " that Mr. and Mr. be appointed Senate. ° s ° ° a committee to go to the Senate, and at the bar thereof, in the name of the House of Representatives, and of all the people of the United States, to impeach James H. Peck, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Missouri, of high misdemeanors in office...
Strana 489 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Strana 294 - The laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law, in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Strana 332 - Certain implied powers must necessarily result to our courts of justice from the nature of their institution. But jurisdiction of crimes against the state is not among those powers. To fine for contempt, imprison for contumacy, enforce the observance of order, etc., are powers which cannot be dispensed with in a court, because they are necessary to the exercise of all others...
Strana 448 - It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance...