The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation / Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952

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[478] 17 Op. Atty. Gen. 419 (1882). See also Hinds' Precedents, III, §§ 2315-2318 (1907).

[479] The Belknap Case, ibid. § 2445.

[480] Elliot, Debates, V, 341, 528.

[481] Ibid. IV, 375.

[482] The Federalist No. 65. For the above see William S. Carpenter, Judicial Tenure in the United States (Yale University Press, 1918), 105-106.

[483] John Quincy Adams, Memoirs, I, 321, 322 (1874).

[484] Trial of Andrew Johnson, I, (Government Printing Office, 1868), 147.

[485] Ibid. 409. Johnson and his Cabinet were much concerned over rumors that it was the intention of his enemies in the House, following impeachment and pending the trial, to put him under arrest and/or suspend him from office. Gideon Welles, Diary, III, 21, 27, 50, 57, 60, 62, 151, 200, 235, 237, 238, 291, 313. But no such step was attempted. Several state constitutions contain provisions authorizing suspension from office in such a case.

[486] Carpenter, Judicial Tenure, 145-153.

[487] Senate proceedings in Cong. Record, vol. 80, pp. 5558-5559, (April 16, 1936).