| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 páginas
...: — " The Supreme Court ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the executive, and the court must each for...not as it is understood by others. It is as much the dutv of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 724 páginas
...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... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 732 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Daniel F. Miller - 1880 - 204 páginas
...announces that each public officer may interpret the Constitution as he pleases. His language is, ' Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...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... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 744 páginas
...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... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 páginas
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was tliat"each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution,...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political excitement of thetime obviously carried both parties to extremes. The position of... | |
| Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 páginas
...must each for itself be guided bv its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, when he takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it." The House, the Senate, and the Pres. must each decide on the constitutionality of a measure before... | |
| William Watrous Crane, Bernard Moses - 1883 - 320 páginas
...machinations of the rich. In his message vetoing the bank charter, he asserted : "The Congress, the executive, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This has been much criticised, but if we limit its assertion of independence of judgment to acts proposed,... | |
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