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... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in cases of im- peachment . " ( Const . U. S. Art . 2 , sec . 2. ) The Constitutions of the several States contain similar provisions , of which that of ...
... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in cases of im- peachment . " ( Const . U. S. Art . 2 , sec . 2. ) The Constitutions of the several States contain similar provisions , of which that of ...
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... grant par- dons on account of the provocation or extenuating circumstances . This has particularly been the case in crimes against the domestic relations . The result of an acquittal or a par- don is the same to the individual , but ...
... grant par- dons on account of the provocation or extenuating circumstances . This has particularly been the case in crimes against the domestic relations . The result of an acquittal or a par- don is the same to the individual , but ...
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... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States . " As this power has been ex- ercised from time immemorial by the executive of the nation whose lan- guage is our language , and to whose judicial institutions ours ...
... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States . " As this power has been ex- ercised from time immemorial by the executive of the nation whose lan- guage is our language , and to whose judicial institutions ours ...
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... grant of this kind would be against reason and the common good , and therefore void ( 2 Hawk . Ch . 37 , sec . 28 ) . So , he cannot release a recognizance to keep the peace with another by name , and generally with other lieges of the ...
... grant of this kind would be against reason and the common good , and therefore void ( 2 Hawk . Ch . 37 , sec . 28 ) . So , he cannot release a recognizance to keep the peace with another by name , and generally with other lieges of the ...
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... Grant , not a novelty , but assumed , as would the rule in Shelley's case have been . Granting they proposed to rest on the dictum of Gibson , C. J. , in 17 Serg . & Rawl . 93 , how about the other branch of the proposition ? He ...
... Grant , not a novelty , but assumed , as would the rule in Shelley's case have been . Granting they proposed to rest on the dictum of Gibson , C. J. , in 17 Serg . & Rawl . 93 , how about the other branch of the proposition ? He ...
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Página 85 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Página 84 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 12 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted 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.
Página 162 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. "For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Página 210 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 86 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Página 399 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Página 15 - A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense.
Página 363 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Página 12 - A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential ; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him.