Note 27 — ARTICLE III
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Act of March 2, 1831, 4 Stat. 487, now 18 U.S.C.A. 401. For a summary of the Peck Impeachment and the background of the act of 1831, see Felix Frankfurter and James Landis, Power of Congress Over Procedure in Criminal Contempts in Inferior Federal Courts—A Study in Separation of Powers, 37 Harvard Law Review, 1010, 1024-1028 (1924).