Report of the Trial by Impeachment of James Prescott, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County of Middlesex for Misconduct and Maladministration in Office, Before the Senate of Massachusetts in the Year 1821: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Former Impeachments in the Same StateOffice of the Daily Advertiser, 1821 - 225 páginas |
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Página 109 - The senate shall be a court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer or officers of the commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration in their offices.
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Página 115 - But previous to the trial of every impeachment the members of the senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
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Página 110 - But an impeachment before the lords, by the commons of Great Britain in parliament, is a prosecution of the already known and established law, and has been frequently put into practice, — being a presentment to the most high and supreme court of criminal jurisdiction, by the most solemn grand inquest of the whole kingdom...
Página 111 - This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful delinquents.
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