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- 1 2 Biographers 1936, p. 338.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Malone & American Council of Learned Societies 1934, p. 155.
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- ↑ Buck 1884, p. 975.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Biographers 1936, p. 339.
- 1 2 3 4 Wilson & Fiske 1898, p. 389, v.4.
- ↑ Malone & American Council of Learned Societies 1934, p. 155 "Shortly after his appointment as chief justice, More became involved in a dispute with the assembly which culminated in the first impeachment trial in American history. ... He was expelled from the assembly and suspended from his judicial position (June 2, 1685), but the council refused to sanction the impeachment proceedings..
- ↑ Kane, Anzovin & Podell 1997, p. 152, item 2718 The first Judge to be impeached was Nicolas More, chief justice of colonial Philadelphia. He fell under such displeasure that the assembly on May 15, 1685, presented 10 charges of impeachment against him to the council. Among other offenses he was charged with "assuming to himself an unlimited and arbitrary power in office." He was expelled on June 2, 1685, but the council refused to sanction the impeachment proceedings.".
