The Executive Power in the United States: A Study of Constitutional LawInquirer printing and publishing Company, 1874 - 270 páginas |
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... entire sovereignty re- sides in the people . They delegate a portion of it to the federal government , another portion to the States . But it is proper to remark that they re- serve the exclusive right to elect , mediately or im ...
... entire sovereignty re- sides in the people . They delegate a portion of it to the federal government , another portion to the States . But it is proper to remark that they re- serve the exclusive right to elect , mediately or im ...
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... entire country , he on the other hand incurs heavy obligations , and must reward services which have been rendered him . Hence his dependence ; hence also his weak- ness . How many compromises is he not required to make , how many ...
... entire country , he on the other hand incurs heavy obligations , and must reward services which have been rendered him . Hence his dependence ; hence also his weak- ness . How many compromises is he not required to make , how many ...
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... , he may act with entire freedom , provided he does not violate the laws with a criminal intent . Even if he deem it best either to offer a momentary resistance to public opinion , or to anticipate it , he IN THE UNITED STATES . 45.
... , he may act with entire freedom , provided he does not violate the laws with a criminal intent . Even if he deem it best either to offer a momentary resistance to public opinion , or to anticipate it , he IN THE UNITED STATES . 45.
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... entire nation , as if with one voice , should arraign and consure him , his legal situation would in no wise be modified . In fact , he would probably have lost all his moral authori- ty , but in law , he would none the less continue to ...
... entire nation , as if with one voice , should arraign and consure him , his legal situation would in no wise be modified . In fact , he would probably have lost all his moral authori- ty , but in law , he would none the less continue to ...
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... entire impartiality , it suffices to remark that dur- ing his two terms the Executive Power was main- tained in its plentitude , and that he achieved this signal success by his energy in defending his con- stitutional prerogatives ...
... entire impartiality , it suffices to remark that dur- ing his two terms the Executive Power was main- tained in its plentitude , and that he achieved this signal success by his energy in defending his con- stitutional prerogatives ...
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Página 166 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Página 167 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be CONSTANTLY awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 142 - Government. 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 by others.
Página 105 - It is as much the duty of the house of representatives, of the senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both.
Página 129 - The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury.
Página 167 - ... interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 130 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Página 130 - ... States, the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority, and in conformity with his orders. " In such cases their acts .are his acts ; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which Executive...
Página 146 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 243 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...