The Executive Power in the United States: A Study of Constitutional LawInquirer printing and publishing Company, 1874 - 270 páginas |
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... results of our republican experiments . This volume offers a new and striking illustration of the fact that many of the characteristics and tendencies of a nation are better understood and appreciated by foreigners than by native ...
... results of our republican experiments . This volume offers a new and striking illustration of the fact that many of the characteristics and tendencies of a nation are better understood and appreciated by foreigners than by native ...
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... result as well from a constant national tradition as from a perfectly logical division of powers between vigorous autonomies and the central institutions . It should , therefore , seek its perpetuity in the peaceful development of its ...
... result as well from a constant national tradition as from a perfectly logical division of powers between vigorous autonomies and the central institutions . It should , therefore , seek its perpetuity in the peaceful development of its ...
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... electoral colleges . But the resulting consequences were far from 1 The " Federalist , " pp . 474-475 . Edition of Henry B. Dawson . It justifying the expectation of the convention . soon became 22 THE EXECUTIVE POWER.
... electoral colleges . But the resulting consequences were far from 1 The " Federalist , " pp . 474-475 . Edition of Henry B. Dawson . It justifying the expectation of the convention . soon became 22 THE EXECUTIVE POWER.
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... result of the popular election , and it was authorized to select for the presi- dential office the person whom the people had in- tended to choose for Vice - president . But here also all the constitutional combinations were of no avail ...
... result of the popular election , and it was authorized to select for the presi- dential office the person whom the people had in- tended to choose for Vice - president . But here also all the constitutional combinations were of no avail ...
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... result of the ballot . After the incidents that marked the elections of Mr. Jefferson and of John Quincy Adams , it is probable that , whenever this body is required to choose between three candidates it will be satisfied with the ...
... result of the ballot . After the incidents that marked the elections of Mr. Jefferson and of John Quincy Adams , it is probable that , whenever this body is required to choose between three candidates it will be satisfied with the ...
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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...