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... things legal in an interesting dress are ac- ceptable ; hence , short communica- tions on legal points and in plain language are desired , and will un doubtedly benefit the writer . Except in special cases , the writer's name will be ...
... things legal in an interesting dress are ac- ceptable ; hence , short communica- tions on legal points and in plain language are desired , and will un doubtedly benefit the writer . Except in special cases , the writer's name will be ...
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... thing that the people should entrust to the same hand that holds their sword , and is commander - in - chief of their military forces , the exercise of their sovereign mercy . Thus the judicial system of free government is made complete ...
... thing that the people should entrust to the same hand that holds their sword , and is commander - in - chief of their military forces , the exercise of their sovereign mercy . Thus the judicial system of free government is made complete ...
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... thing has either occurred or been dis- covered that raises a reasonable and serious doubt , either as to the justice of the conviction , or the propriety of the particular penalty awarded ? Among the questions which the executive should ...
... thing has either occurred or been dis- covered that raises a reasonable and serious doubt , either as to the justice of the conviction , or the propriety of the particular penalty awarded ? Among the questions which the executive should ...
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... things said , p . 309. Under this power , the President has granted reprieves and pardons since the com- mencement of the present govern- ment . Sundry provisions have been enacted , regulating its exercise for the army and navy , in ...
... things said , p . 309. Under this power , the President has granted reprieves and pardons since the com- mencement of the present govern- ment . Sundry provisions have been enacted , regulating its exercise for the army and navy , in ...
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... things are not Christianity -are merely business principles applied to a religious habit - and are unjust alike to those who are willing to endure the fancied dis- comfort of finding a stranger in the pew , and to those who know no God ...
... things are not Christianity -are merely business principles applied to a religious habit - and are unjust alike to those who are willing to endure the fancied dis- comfort of finding a stranger in the pew , and to those who know no God ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.