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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... Throne . The Chamber of Deputies shall have the right of accusing the ministers , and of impeaching them before the Chamber of Peers , which alone shall have the right of sitting in judgment upon them . " * Charter of 1814 , art . 55 ...
... Throne . The Chamber of Deputies shall have the right of accusing the ministers , and of impeaching them before the Chamber of Peers , which alone shall have the right of sitting in judgment upon them . " * Charter of 1814 , art . 55 ...
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... throne was become vacant + . ' 22 Professor Miller very justly observes , that although the lan- guage employed by the leaders of the English Convention was accommodated to the narrow prejudices of the times , their measures were ...
... throne was become vacant + . ' 22 Professor Miller very justly observes , that although the lan- guage employed by the leaders of the English Convention was accommodated to the narrow prejudices of the times , their measures were ...
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... ground , or put in issue the merits of the Revolution and the claim of the new dynasty to the throne . " The King , " said he , " is sacred and inviolable ; the Ministers responsible . The first part of this law has been 32.
... ground , or put in issue the merits of the Revolution and the claim of the new dynasty to the throne . " The King , " said he , " is sacred and inviolable ; the Ministers responsible . The first part of this law has been 32.
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... throne to dismiss a Ministry which they had not condescended to hear ; that the King , con- ceiving his undoubted prerogative attacked by this precipitate had deemed it expedient to recur to the sense of the people ; and that the men ...
... throne to dismiss a Ministry which they had not condescended to hear ; that the King , con- ceiving his undoubted prerogative attacked by this precipitate had deemed it expedient to recur to the sense of the people ; and that the men ...
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... throne , rather than yield , it is difficult to determine . We can only say , with- out being in a condition to prove it , that after an attentive consideration of all the documents , and of every part of the examination , we enter ...
... throne , rather than yield , it is difficult to determine . We can only say , with- out being in a condition to prove it , that after an attentive consideration of all the documents , and of every part of the examination , we enter ...
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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.