Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, and Related Matters: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of ... , 93-2, Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and 17, 19741975 - 271 pages |
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93D CONGRESS 2D ABZUG action Alexander Haig American amnesty answer asked attorney and counsellor August 9 authority Becker believe bill bills of attainder BUCHEN Burdick Chairman charges committed concerning CONGRESS 2D SESSION Constitution conviction counsel crime DANIELSON decision DENNIS documents evidence Ex parte Garland executive exercise facts Federal former President Nixon Garland gentleman going grant a pardon GUDE guilt Haig HOLTZMAN House of Representatives HUNGATE impeachment indictment investigation involved issue judgment judicial Judiciary Committee KASTENMEIER KOCH legislative Leon Jaworski matter MAYNE ment oath pardoning power penalty person plaintiffs in error prescribe President Ford President's press conference proceedings punishment Question reason record referred REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER resignation resolution of inquiry Richard Nixon Senate September 17 Special Prosecution Force Special Prosecutor statement subpoenas tapes testimony Thank tion trial United Watergate grand jury Watergate-related White House
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Page 109 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 245 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 122 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like.
Page 132 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Page 73 - ... a lawyer or law firm associated with the prosecution or defense shall not make or participate in making an extrajudicial statement that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by public communication and that is reasonably likely to affect the imposition of sentence.
Page 126 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 57 - If granted before conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities, and restores him to all his civil rights; it makes him, as it were, a new man. and gives him a new credit and capacity.
Page 141 - A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted 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 110 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 136 - Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice and the State constitutions...