Legal Materials on ImpeachmentU.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 326 strani |
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Stran 57 - ... for any reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment, the Governor may remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of each House of the General Assembly.
Stran 226 - Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift : for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Stran 306 - For it is quite evident that one who holds his office only during the pleasure of another, cannot be depended upon to maintain an attitude of independence against the latter's will.
Stran 153 - Governor on the address of two-thirds of each House of the Legislature, for wilful neglect of duty, incompetency, habitual drunkenness, oppression in office, or other reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment...
Stran 159 - I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
Stran 41 - The interpretation of the Constitution of the United States is necessarily influenced by the fact that its provisions are framed in the language of the English common law, and are to be read in the light of its history.
Stran 108 - What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the institution itself? Is it not designed as a method of "national inquest" into the conduct of public men?
Stran 166 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Stran 306 - The power of removal here claimed for the President falls within this principle, since its coercive influence threatens the independence of a commission, which is not only wholly disconnected from the executive department, but which, as already fully appears, was created by Congress as a means of carrying into operation legislative and judicial powers, and as an agency of the legislative and judicial departments.
Stran 226 - A judge should not accept any presents or favors from litigants, or from lawyers practicing before him or from others whose interests are likely to be submitted to him for judgment.