Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing legal and equitable procedure is inadequate. Nor would the appointment of such a commission express any lack of respect for the Trial Judge
...approved May 23, 1910, the drastic step was taken which carried this process of reducing the safeguard of capital cases to the final limit. The court shall be held by one of the justices, and when so held shall have and exercise all the power and jurisdiction committed to said court": the section making special provision for capi- tal cases was repealed (Acts and Resolves, 1910, 555). This is the present situation. The General Laws of 1921 simply state that "The court shall be held by one of the justices" (212,2); and that. "The court shall have original jurisdiction...
...have unlimited power among the nations of the earth," he continued, "if we choose to exercise it, and we can exercise it more extensively and helpfully if we do not hold ourselves aloof or attempt to limit our natural power and influence by artificial restrictions and barriers
Government Must Renew Power...
...President Hibben began the actual body of the first division of his lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern...