 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...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Stran 373avtor: Charles Sumner - 1875Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1888 - 740 strani
...veto-message, lie says: "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 by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Sir Henry Parkes - 1890 - 216 strani
...Bills. He says : 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 by others. Daniel Webster among others strongly condemned the .President, and thus spoke of it at the time : —... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 strani
...nn oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not oa it is understood by others. It is as much the duty...the Senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitntionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval,... | |
 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 strani
...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 by others."1 1 The question whether the Departments of the Government are independent of each other, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 strani
...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 by others. Again and again have I heard Judge Douglas denounce that bank decision and applaud General Jackson... | |
 | James Schouler - 1894 - 588 strani
...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 by others." If, was the natural reply, every one in authority is to construe the law privately for himself, and... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1899 - 830 strani
...Jackson wrote : " 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 by others." In the review of the history of attempted nullifications on p. 101 there is no mention of the Personal... | |
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