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A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction.A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.
The pardon power of the president is based on Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides: . The President ... shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.
Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people. [3] Among them are: David Bradford, for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion; John Fries, for his role in Fries's Rebellion; convicted of treason due to opposition to a tax; Fries and others were pardoned, and a general amnesty was issued for everyone involved in 1800.
Individuals pardoned by Manuel Roxas.Among them are beneficiaries of Proclamation No. 51 which is a general amnesty for people charged for collaborating with Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Both during and after the American Civil War, pardons for ex-Confederates were given by US presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and were usually extended for those who had served in the military above the rank of colonel or civilians who had exercised political power under the Confederate government.
Blanket clemency is clemency granted to multiple persons and can be in the form of a pardon, shortening of a prison sentence, or a commutation of a sentence, or a reprieve.
The Pardon at Kergoat (1891) by Jules Breton. A pardon is a typically Breton form of pilgrimage and one of the most traditional demonstrations of popular Catholicism in Brittany.
Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that: . A pardoned person must introduce the pardon into court proceedings, otherwise the pardon is considered a private matter, unknown to and unable to be acted on by the court.