Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
892
AUTHOR:
John Hatsell (1742–1820)
QUOTATION:
In the case of impeachments, which are the groans of the people,… and carry with them a greater supposition of guilt than any other accusation, there all the Lords must judge.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN HATSELL, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons, vol. 4, appendix 3, p. 343 (1769).
This quotation is used in a footnote by Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, p. 51 (1973).
