The Executive Power in the United States: A Study of Constitutional LawInquirer printing and publishing Company, 1874 - 270 páginas |
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... necessary condition of national life . But it is impossible to enter upon the study of pro- blems so complicated as those which , even in the United States , arise out of the organization of the Ex- ecutive Power , without at once ...
... necessary condition of national life . But it is impossible to enter upon the study of pro- blems so complicated as those which , even in the United States , arise out of the organization of the Ex- ecutive Power , without at once ...
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... necessary to the duration of his official consequence . This advantage will also be secured by making his re - election to depend on a special body of representatives deputed by the society for the single purpose of making the impor ...
... necessary to the duration of his official consequence . This advantage will also be secured by making his re - election to depend on a special body of representatives deputed by the society for the single purpose of making the impor ...
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... necessary to have a general organization which may apply to the whole nation , and a local organization in each State , county and township . The Americans have succeeded in giving regular action to this complicated political machinery ...
... necessary to have a general organization which may apply to the whole nation , and a local organization in each State , county and township . The Americans have succeeded in giving regular action to this complicated political machinery ...
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... necessary in a well - organized government .......... The principal evils of our system of government grow out of these organizations , nominating conventions , and other party machinery devised to stimulate party spirit , to secure ...
... necessary in a well - organized government .......... The principal evils of our system of government grow out of these organizations , nominating conventions , and other party machinery devised to stimulate party spirit , to secure ...
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... necessary to investigate here , was the question of slavery.2 It results from the experience of the past forty years in particular , that the organization of parties identifies the President with that one which has elected him . He ...
... necessary to investigate here , was the question of slavery.2 It results from the experience of the past forty years in particular , that the organization of parties identifies the President with that one which has elected him . He ...
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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...