 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN. DECEMBERS, 1863. The following proclamation is appended to the message: PROCLAMATION. Whereas, In and by the Constitution of the United...now exists whereby the loyal State Governments of i95 several States have for a long time been subverted, and many persons have committed and are now... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1975 - 268 pages
...December 8, 1863, he disclaimed necessity for the authorization.19 He began his proclamation by saying : "Whereas in and by the Constitution of the United...President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons . . ." and very plainly showed that he based his authority to grant the proclamation upon the... | |
 | Administrative law - 1953 - 176 pages
...FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE JUNE 25, 1950 WHEREAS the Constitution of the. United States provides that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves...United States, except in cases of impeachment"; and ' Proc. 2866, 3 CFR, 1949 Supp., p. 54. WHEREAS there have entered, enrolled in, or been inducted into... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...for the revolted States, which is fully set forth in the following proclamation : — PROCLAMATION. " Whereas, In and by the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that th« President shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States,... | |
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Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment... 
