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Judgment. Judgments in Parliament, for death, have [753.16] been strictly guided per legem terræ, which they can not alter; and not at all according to their discretion. They can neither omit any part of the legal judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be secundum, non ultra legem. Seld. Jud., 168, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful delinquents. The judgment, therefore, is to be such as is warranted by legal principles or precedents. 6 Sta. Tr., 14; 2 Wood., 611. The Chancellor gives judgment in misdemeanors; the Lord High Steward formerly in cases of life and death. Seld. Jud., 180. But now the Steward is deemed not necessary. Fost., 144; 2 Wood., 613. In misdemeanors the greatest corporal punishment hath been imprisonment. Seld. Jud., 184. The King's assent is necessary in capital judgments (but 2 Wood., 614, contra), but not in misdemeanors. Seld. Jud., 136.

Continuance. An impeachment is not discontinued by [753.17] the dissolution of Parliament, but may be resumed by the new Parliament. T. Ray., 383; 4 Com. Journ., 23 Dec., 1790; Lord's Journ., May 15, 1791; 2 Woods., 618.

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Accusation. Common fame a good ground to proceed by in

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question shall be: 1st, to agree; 2d, to disagree; 3d, to
recede; 4th, to insist; 5th, to adhere.___.

738.3

one House adhering, the other must recede or also_-
where both Houses adhere the matter must fall.....
there are instances of having gone to a second ad-
herence..

738.3

738.3

738.3

the form fixed by adherence can not be departed from

by the House which adheres____

738.3

should be two conferences before vote to..

738.3

Adjournment, motion for, can not be amended__

rules and regulations in respect to..

750.3

750

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[754]

Senate

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Amendment to bills, the House can not recede from or insist on

Section

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Appropriation may be made by resolution...

Arrest, discussion of privilege from..

terminates with the session...

Assault and affrays in the House, how settled..

Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting---

Ayes and noes, how questions are determined by.___ no Member to vote if not present...

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to be fairly written, or Speaker may refuse them----
introduction, reading, and commitment....
amendments fall if recommitted____

723

724, 725, 726

730.3

a particular clause may be recommitted...

can not be amended on the first reading-
amendments, how proceeded with___

proceedings on second reading...

if second reading refused, the bill is rejected__--_.

728.3

724

735

725

738.1

time for attacking or opposing---

731.3, 743.1

one bill may be ingrafted on another..

735.3

one House may pass with blanks to be filled in the other.

735.12

on third reading, forms observed....

740

on third reading, may be committed for certain action__
on third reading, amended by riders....

740.6

740.7

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at the close of session no new bill, unless sent from the

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not to be referred to avowed opponents.--
referred, may be delivered to any of the committee...
amendments between the Houses, mode of proceeding-
by whom to be taken from House to House.....
may be specially commended to notice of the other House.
if one House neglects a bill, the other may remind of it..
how to be enrolled, signed, and presented to the Presi-
dent....

745

747

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