Reflections on the Trial of the Prince de Polignac and His Colleagues: The Last Ministers of Charles the Tenth Before the Chamber of Peers of France in 1830 |
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Page 56 - Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and Disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of Honour, Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Page 140 - However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed.
Page 138 - Tout concert de mesures contraires aux lois, pratiqué, soit par la réunion d'individus ou de corps dépositaires de quelque partie de l'autorité publique, soit par députation ou correspondance entre eux, sera .puni d'un emprisonnement de deux mois au moins et de six mois au plus, contre chaque coupable, qui pourra de plus être condamné à l'interdiction des droits civiques, et de tout emploi public, pendant dix ans au plus.
Page 33 - The job customarily requires full-time training for a period of not less than six months and not more than two years.
Page 140 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to...
Page 51 - ... if a man do violate the king's companion, or the king's eldest daughter unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the king...
Page 138 - ... sera puni d'un emprisonnement de six mois au moins , et de deux ans au plus , et d'une amende de cent francs à cinq cents francs. Il sera interdit de l'exercice de toute fonction publique pour cinq ans au moins, et dix ans au plus...
Page 51 - Inst. 9), or the king's eldest daughter, unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son nnd heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm ; or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm giving them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere...
Page 52 - And in the first year of his successor's reign, an act was passed u, reciting, " that no man " knew how he ought to behave himself, to do, speak, or say, " for doubt of such pains of treason ; and therefore it was " accorded, that in no time to come any treason be judged " otherwise than was ordained by the statute of king Edward
Page 140 - To constitute that specific crime for which the prisoners now before the court have been committed, war must be actually levied against the United States. However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the go-' vernmcut of our country, such conspiracy is not treason.