| Sir Henry Parkes - 1890 - 216 páginas
...I am quoting from the message of the President conveying his veto on one of their Bills. He says : Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...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 páginas
...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each pnblic ollicrr, who takes 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 of the House of Representatives, of the Senate,... | |
| Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 páginas
...co-ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each...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... | |
| James Schouler - 1894 - 588 páginas
...left arm. 8 Parton's Jackson, 416. The Congress, the Executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each...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... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1897 - 396 páginas
...oath of office. President Jackson, in his celebrated message, vetoing the Bank bill, says : " Every public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." In this statement, as an, argument, there would seem to.be nothing but the most pernicious error. A... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1985 - 236 páginas
...force of their reasoning." Jackson believed that each public officer should support the Constitution "as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." He did not embrace, however, the Jeffersonians' unyielding hostility toward the courts. Rather, he... | |
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