Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, and Related Matters: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session ... September 24, October 1 and 17, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 271 strani |
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93D CONGRESS 2D ABZUG action American amnesty answer asked attorney and counsellor August 9 authority Becker believe bill bills of attainder BUCHEN Chairman charges committed concerning CONGRESS 2D SESSION CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Constitution conviction counsel crime DANIELSON decision DENNIS documents EDWARDS evidence Ex parte Garland executive exercise facts Federal former President Nixon Garland gentleman grand jury grant a pardon GUDE guilt Haig HOLTZMAN House of Representatives HUNGATE impeachable offense impeachment indictment investigation involved issue Jaworski Joint Resolution judgment judicial Judiciary Committee KASTENMEIER legislative Leon Jaworski LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS matter MAYNE ment oath pardoning power person President Ford President's proceedings punishment Question reason record referred REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER resignation resolution of inquiry Richard Nixon Senate September 17 Special Prosecution Force Special Prosecutor statement tapes testimony Thank tion trial United Watergate-related White House
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Stran 255 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Stran 126 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like.
Stran 136 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Stran 130 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Stran 58 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.
Stran 54 - If granted before conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities, and restores him to all his civil rights; it makes him, as it were, a new man. and gives him a new credit and capacity.
Stran 114 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Stran 249 - Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength ; and the power of directing and employing the common strength forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.
Stran 251 - A pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is a part of the Constitutional scheme. When granted it Is the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by inflicting less than what the judgment fixed.
Stran 113 - ... voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.