 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 718 strani
...violate, day after day and month after month, fundamental principles of the Government. . . . We have seen a Congress that seemed to forget that there was a limit to the sphere and scope of legislation." — REPLY TO COMMITTEE FROM PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE, AUG. 18, 1866 "And I do further... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 648 strani
...and violate, day after day and month after month, fundamental principles of the Government. We have seen a Congress that seemed to forget that there was a limit to the sphere aud scope of legislation. We have seen a Congress in a minority assume to exercise power which, allowed... | |
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... and act tended to perpetuate disunion, and make a disruption of the States inevitable. . . . We have seen Congress gradually encroach, step by step, upon Constitutional rights, and violate, day after day and month after month, fundamental principles... 
