Trial of Charles A. Edmonds: Commissioner of the State of Michigan Before the Senate of Said State, on an Impeachment, Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him, for Corrupt Conduct in Office, Crimes and Misdemeanors ...

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W. S. George & Company, state printers, 1872 - Trials (Impeachment) - 1891 pages

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Page 1012 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 1760 - When an impeachment is directed, the Senate shall take an oath or affirmation truly and impartially to try and determine the same according to the evidence. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected. Judgment in case of impeachment shall not extend further than removal from office; but the party convicted shall be liable to punishment according to law.
Page 1721 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Page 1821 - States, unmindful of the high duties of his office, of his oath of office, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and contrary to the provisions of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices...
Page 1758 - 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, prevail.
Page 1596 - No obscene book, pamphlet, picture, print, or other publication of a vulgar and indecent character, shall be admitted into the mails of the United States.
Page 1589 - It is not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the State. It touches neither his person nor his property; but simply divests him of his political capacity.
Page 1013 - January 3d, 1871, and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto...
Page 1810 - Osborne, now Earl of Danby, ran down Chancellor Hyde ; but what will become of the Earl of Danby, your lordships best can tell. But let me see that man that dare run the Earl of Danby down, and we shall soon see what will become of him.
Page 1835 - AD eighteen , at the county of (here set forth the act or omission charged as an offense), contrary to the form, force, and effect of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the people of the state of California.

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