| Elizabeth A. Linn, Nathan Sargent - 1857 - 514 páginas
...Resolved, That the President, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." In opening the debate upon his resolutions in an elaborate, higlJy-wrought and powerful speech, on... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1857 - 722 páginas
...26 in a house of 46, voted " that the President, in the late executive proceedings, had assumed to himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in de,rogation of both." * Thus the two houses, as in England on the Reform Bill, were brought into direct collision ; and this... | |
| Elizabeth A. Linn, Nathan Sargent - 1857 - 452 páginas
...modified by the mover, and that relating to the President passed in the following words : " Eesolved, That the President, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation... | |
| Henry Clay - 1857 - 650 páginas
...vote of twenty-six to twenty, the following resolution, which had been offered by Mr. Clay : Resolved, that the president, in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed to himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation... | |
| William Jay - 1853 - 682 páginas
...relation to the suppression of certain papers in the New York Post Office, has assumed upon nimself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both,' instead of protesting against the charge, you would be compelled to acknowledge its truth, and you... | |
| Henry Clay - 996 páginas
...implied no presidential guilt of the sort or magnitude requiring impeachment. "It simply affirmed that he had 'assumed upon himself authority and power not...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.' It imputed no criminal motives." Criticizes the friends of the president for introducing the constitutional... | |
| Robert J. Spitzer - 1988 - 206 páginas
..."Resolved, That the President in the late executive proceeding in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred...Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." (Congressional Globe, March 28, 1834: 271) 5. Kent first proposed this amendment on December 24, 1833... | |
| 1989 - 90 páginas
...the Senate censured President Jackson for his act of defiance. The Senate resolved that the president had "assumed upon himself authority and power not...constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri dismissed this action as "a mere personal censure — having... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1906 - 304 páginas
...moneys from the Bank of the United States, the Senate passed a resolution censuring him for assuming a power ' ' not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Two years later, with an administration majority in the Senate, Benton's "expunging resolution" came... | |
| John A. Marini - 1992 - 228 páginas
...of the purse from the sword."w Henry Clay offered a Resolution of Censure in which it was resolved "that the President in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and the laws but in... | |
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