 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...  The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay ... - Էջ 104Henry Clay - 1843Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 էջ
...opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, ivho takes an oath to support the Constitution, sivears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is ^mderstood by others*. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 էջ
...to stand or to fall before the American people, the veto message, he holds the following language: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our government. It would... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 էջ
...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...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 էջ
...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...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 724 էջ
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 էջ
...to stand or to fall before the American people, the veto message, he holds the following language: " us, Mr. President, the general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 732 էջ
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Daniel F. Miller - 1880 - 204 էջ
...figure under consideration:' " MR. PRESIDENT : There are some parts of this message that ought to excite alarm ; and that especially in which the President...understands it, and not as it is understood by others.' "Now, Mr. President, I conceive, with great deference, that the President has mistaken the purport... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1880 - 414 էջ
...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...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 744 էջ
...binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each puhlic officer who takes an oath to support the constitution,...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
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