Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 1

Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 1

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(Chase, Samuel) | An important precedent for independence of the judiciary

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(Chase, Samuel)

The Answer and Pleas of Samuel Chase, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the Articles of Impeachment, Exhibited Against him in the Said Court, by the House of Representatives of the United States ... Washington City: Printed by William Duane & Son, 1805 [Bound with] Replication by the House of Representatives of the United States, to the Answer of Samuel Chase ... to the Articles of Impeachment. Printed by the order of the Senate. [Washington]: 1805


2 works in 1 vol., 8vo (190 x 117 mm). A few early annotations, scattered soiling and dampstaining. Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. 


First edition. Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration and Supreme Court Justice, was impeached for alleged partisan misdemeanors in the political trials of Fries and Callender. The Senate voted to acquit Chase of all charges, establishing an unofficial precedent with respect to independence of the judiciary. 


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