Three Human Rights in the Constitution of 1787University of Kansas Press, 1956 - 245 pages |
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Page 144
... legislative punishments by bills of attainder , the Constitution prevents them from being inflicted through the different method of impeachments . It confines impeachments to their central object of getting the official out of office ...
... legislative punishments by bills of attainder , the Constitution prevents them from being inflicted through the different method of impeachments . It confines impeachments to their central object of getting the official out of office ...
Page 145
... legislators to get men punished in all sorts of ways without trial in a courtroom ? This vital question cannot be decisively answered except by the Supreme Court , and we do not yet have enough cases to know just where the Court stands ...
... legislators to get men punished in all sorts of ways without trial in a courtroom ? This vital question cannot be decisively answered except by the Supreme Court , and we do not yet have enough cases to know just where the Court stands ...
Page 159
... legislative condemnation of individ- uals has not yet come before the Supreme Court and ju- dicial control of it is perhaps impossible . I refer to the practice of legislative investigating committees , in Congress and many states , of ...
... legislative condemnation of individ- uals has not yet come before the Supreme Court and ju- dicial control of it is perhaps impossible . I refer to the practice of legislative investigating committees , in Congress and many states , of ...
Contents
FREEDOM OF DEBATE IN CONGRESS | 4 |
THE PROHIBITION OF BILLS OF ATTAINDER | 90 |
FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT | 162 |
Copyright | |
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