 The senate shall be a court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer or officers of the commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration in their offices.  Provincial and State Papers - Page 120by New Hampshire (Colony) Probate Court - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...power to iffue fummons, or compulfory procefs, for convening witnefles before them, with all neceflary powers incident to a court of Trials : But previous to the trial of any fuch impeachment, the members of the Senate (hall refpeftively be fworn truly and impar. tially to... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...determine its own rules of proceedings. VIII. The Senate shall be a Court, with full authority, to hear and determine all impeachments, made by the House of Representatives, against any officer or officers of the Con". mon wealth, for misconduct and maladministration in their offices. But previous to the trial... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...misbehaviour — for it had declared only, " That the senate shall be a court, with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer or officers of the commonwealth, for misconduct and maladministration in their offices."-— Chap. 1. sect. 2. art. 8.... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 238 pages
...under which this tribunal is organized, piovides that the Senate should be a court for the trial of all impeachments made by the House of Representatives against any officer, or officers of this Commonwealth,for misconduct and maladministration in their offices. Some difference of opinion... | |
 | Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 248 pages
...It is provided by the constitution that "the Senate shall be a Court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments, made by the House of Representatives, against any officer or officer» of the Commonwealth for misconduct and mal-admtnisiration in their offices." The important... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 726 pages
...and tried by the Senate." And " the Senate shall be a court with full power and authority to try and determine all impeachments made by the House of Representatives...the State, for bribery, corruption, mal-practice, or mal-ad ministration in office ; with full power to issue summons or compulsory process, for conveying... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...its own rules of proceedings. VIII. , The Senate shall be a court, with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments, made by the House of Representatives, against any officer or officers of the Commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration iri their offices. 'But previous to the trial of... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...shall he a court, with full power and authority to hear, try, and determine, all impeachments made^hy the house of representatives against any officer or officers of the state, for hrihery, corruption, malepractice, or maladministration, in office; with full power to issue summons,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...determine its own rules of procedings. VIII.—THE Senate shall be a court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the House of Representatives, against any officer or officers of the Commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration in their offices. But previous to the trial of... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 910 pages
...president ; appoints its own officers , and determines its own rules of proceeding. It is authorized to determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer of the common, wealth. Its judgment extends only to removal from office, and disqualification to hold... | |
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