A Treatise Upon the Law Privileges Proceedings And Usage of Parliament
A Treatise Upon the Law Privileges Proceedings And Usage of Parliament
May, Thomas Erskine, 1815-1886
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3, the committee are directed to investigate the reasons, and to report their opinion respecting them to the house. ' 42 Geo. 3, c. 26. GO Geo. 3, c. 7. B B 3 374 IMPEACHMENT. CHAPTER XXIII. IMPEACHMENT BY THE COMMONS; GROUNDS OF ACCUSA- TION ; FORM OF THE CHARGE ; ARTICLES OF IMPEACH- MENT J THE TRIAL AND JUDGMENT; PROCEEDINGS NOT CONCLUDED BY PROROGATION OR DISSOLUTION ; PARDON NOT PLEADABLE. TRIAL OF PEERS. BILLS OF ATTAINDER AND OF PAINS AND PENALTIES. Parity of im- IMPEACHMENT bv the commo...ns, foF high crimes and |K-aclimpnt8 in, ■' ' o luoderii times, misdemeanors beyond the reach of the law, or which no other authority in the state will prosecute, is a safeguard of public liberty well worthy of a free country, and of so noble an institution as a free Parliament. But, happily, in modern times, this extraordinary judicature is rarely called into activity.^ The times in which its exercise was needed were those in which the people were jealous of the Crown ; when the Parliament had less control over prero- gative ; when courts of justice were impure ; and when, instead of vindicating the law, the Crown and its officers resisted its execution, and screened political offenders from justice.
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