Legislative Contempt Power in the United States
Legislative Contempt Power
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 491 LEGISLATIVE CONTEMPT POWERAnglo-American legislative bodies have exercised the power to punish nonmembers for contempt of their dignity and proceedings since the time when the High Court of Parliament exercised undifferentiated legislative and judicial power. There is no explicit constitutional
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