[116] Ibid., 396-97.
[117] Quoting Magna Charta,—“Nec super eum [liberum hominem] ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terræ.”
[118] 2 Inst., 50-51.
[119] Commentaries on the Constitution, § 1783, Vol. III. p. 661.
[120] For the proceedings in this case, see Annals of Congress, 6th Cong. 1st Sess., Senate, at the pages referred to in the Index, under the title Aurora. On the cases of Hyatt and Nugent, see, ante, pp. 132, 133, and the references there named.
[121] Vol. I. p. 448, 6th edition, London, 1850.
[122] 15 Gray’s Reports, 399.
[123] Speech, June 14, 1844: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Series, Vol. LXXV. col. 898-99.
[124] Speech, June 17, 1844: Ibid., col. 980-81.
[125] Ibid., col. 981.