 | John Quincy Adams - 1874 - 576 pàgines
...or corruption in him. Congress had no power over the person, but only over the office. And a removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration...purpose of giving them to men who will fill them better. In answer to all this, Mr. Smith only contended that honest error of opinion could not, as he conceived,... | |
 | 1913 - 830 pàgines
...entertaining them. ... A removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration by Congress to the effect: You hold dangerous opinions, and if you are...giving them to men who will fill them better." The conviction prevailed that the impeachment process was impracticable. John Randolph proposed as an amendment... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1900 - 634 pàgines
...they might be. Impeachment was not a criminal prosecution; it was not a prosecution at all. A removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration...of giving them to men who will fill them better." Smith was not convinced by this reasoning. He maintained that honest error of opinion ought not to... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1903 - 616 pàgines
...they might be. Impeachment was not a criminal prosecution ; it was not a prosecution at all. A removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration...of giving them to men who will fill them better." Smith was not convinced by this reasoning. He maintained that honest error of opinion ought not to... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - 1907 - 592 pàgines
...entertaining them. . . . A removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration by Congress to the effect: You hold dangerous opinions, and if you are...of giving them to men who will fill them better." * Vol. I, 322, et seq. It must be conceded that Samuel Chase was a shining mark for the assaults of... | |
 | Brooks Adams - 1913 - 270 pàgines
...such opinions, however honest or sincere they may have been in entertaining them. * * * And a removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration...of giving them to men who will fill them better." 1 Jefferson, though he controlled a majority in the Senate, failed by a narrow margin to obtain the... | |
 | Dice Robins Anderson - 1914 - 300 pàgines
...whether the office of any public man might "December 4. mjr. Q. Adams, Memoirs, i, 318 (1804, Nov. 29). not be better filled by another." There was, according...the non-judicial character of an impeachment trial, lie said: "so the assumption of power on the part of the Supreme Court in issuing their process to... | |
 | Dice Robins Anderson - 1914 - 294 pàgines
...whether the office of any public man might "December 4. mJ. Q. Adams, Memoirs, i, 318 (1804, Nov. 29). not be better filled by another." There was, according...in the effort to establish this conception of the non- judicial character of an impeachment trial, he said : "so the assumption of power on the part... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 690 pàgines
...Hopkinson.) Our property, our liberty, our Eves con only be protected by independent judges. (Luther Martin.) "WE want your offices, for the purpose of giving them to men who will fill them better." In these frank words, Senator William Branch Giles 1 of Virginia stated one of the purposes of the... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1919 - 708 pàgines
...property, our liberty, our lives can only be protected by independent judges. (Luther Martin.) "WE ward your offices, for the purpose of giving them to men who will fill them better." In these frank words, Senator William Branch Giles 1 of Virginia stated one of the purposes of the... | |
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We want your offices, for the purpose of giving them to men who will fill them better. 
