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Title: Powers of the American people, Congress, President, and courts, according to evolution of constitutional construction
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Miyakawa, Masuji
Subjects: Constitutional law
Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Wilkens-Sheiry co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d annex to his bounty a condition precedentor subsequent, on the performance of which validity ofthe pardon will depend. And if the felon does notperform the condition of the pardon, it will be altogethervoid; and he many be brought to the bar and made tosuffer the punishment to which he was originally sen-tenced. But in the meantime we must make it understoodthat the King cannot, by any previous license, make anoffence dispunishable which is malum in se, that is, unlaw-ful itself as being against the law of nature, commongood, common law, reason and public good. This power to pardon, says the Supreme Court, hasalso been restrained by particular statutes. By the Actof Settlement, 12 and 13 Will, iii c. 2, Eng., no pardonunder the great seal is pleadable to an impeachment bythe Commons in Parliament, but after the articles of im-peachment have been heard and determined, he may par-don. The provision in our Constitution, except in casesof impeachment out of the power of the President to
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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 1. John Tyler, lOth Pres. 2. John Adams, id Pres. 3. Franklin Pikkce, 14th Pres. 4. Zacharv Taylor, 12th Pres. 12. Andrrw Jackson, 7th Pres. Thomas Jekferson, Srd Pres.James Madison, -Ith Pres.George Washington, Ibt Pres.James K. Polk, llth Pres. 9. John Quincy Adams, 6th Pres. 10. James Monroe, 5th Pres. 11. William Henry Harrison, llth Pres. 13. Martin Van Buken, 8th Pres. THE PRESIDENT. II7 pardon, was evidently taken from that statute, and is animprovement upon the same. * As to the reprieves, the same court makes us to un-derstand that that is not only to be used to delay ajudicial sentence when the President shall think the meritsof the case, or some cause connected with the offendermay require it, but it extends also to cases ex necessitatelegis, as where a female after conviction is found to beenceinte, or where a convict becomes insane, or is al-leged to be so. Though the reprieve in either case pro-duces delay in the execution of a sentence, t

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