 | Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 strani
...must each for itself be guided bv its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, when he takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it." The House, the Senate, and the Pres. must each decide on the constitutionality of a measure before... | |
 | William Watrous Crane, Bernard Moses - 1883 - 324 strani
...the rich. In his message vetoing the bank charter, he asserted : "The Congress, the executive, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. " This has been much criticised, but if we limit its assertion of independence of judgment to acts... | |
 | Meeds Tuthill - 1883 - 302 strani
...office. If any one doubts it, let him read the Veto Message of Jackson in 1832, where he declares: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it and not as it is understood by others." Now the Jackson party, we all know, is the "strict construction " party. It is strict in this way,—that... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 strani
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that lie will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 strani
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears tliat he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1886 - 766 strani
...celebrated veto of the Bank Bill, when he declared that " The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his... | |
 | Henry C. Lockwood - 1884 - 504 strani
...to- fall, before the American people, the veto message, lie holds the following language : ' iCach public officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution,...support it as he understands it, and not as it is Senate passed condemnatory resolutions, and the President protested. He wished the protest placed on... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 strani
...control the coordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself, be guided by its own opinion of the...President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any hill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the Supreme... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 416 strani
...1811. It was in overruling the Supreme Court that Jackson in the veto uttered the famous sentence : " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The arrival of the veto in the Senate was the signal for a grand explosion of oratory. Webster opened... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1888 - 740 strani
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, lie says: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
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The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood... 
