 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1881 - 948 pages
...required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law,... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 556 pages
...unless his testimony is required In a matter into which that bouse has the jurisdiction to inquire. And neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making Inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. The constitutional provision as to the privilege of members of Congress for any speech or debate in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1302 pages
...unless his testimony is required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire. 7. Neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. 8. All the powers Intrusted to Government, whether state or national, are divided into the three grand... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Politicians - 1882 - 816 pages
...unless his testimony is required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire," and " neither of these bodies possesses the general power...inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." In the main the Constitution divides power, by bold lines and with singular precision, into three grand... | |
 | United States. Congress Senate - Telegraph - 1884 - 370 pages
...case of Kilbourn v. Thompson, ''That neither House of Congress," nor any committee appointed by it, "possesses the general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." No distinction exists in this regard between the rights of a natural and a corporate person. Very truly,... | |
 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - Electronic journals - 1886 - 760 pages
...required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making' inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. The proposition that the general power to punish for contempts exists as one necessary to enable either... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 770 pages
...required iu a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally mire that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. And again: If the investigation which the committee was directed to make was judicial in its character,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit), Stephen Johnson Field - Courts - 1887 - 72 pages
...House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we 'feel equally sure that neither of those bodies possessess the general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen.'1'1 (Kilbourn vs. Thompson, 103 U. S., 190.) That was a case, like this, wherein the House... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - District courts - 1888 - 716 pages
...required in a matter into which that house has jurisdiction to inquire, and we fed equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." And again: " If the investigation which the committee was directed to make was judicial in its character,... | |
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House by fine or imprisonment goes beyond this or not, we are sure that no person can be punished for contumacy as a witness before either House, unless his testimony is required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel... 
