 | United States - 1961 - 1320 páginas
...saying: PUBLIC LAW 87-1-MAR. 1, 1961 Centennial. LinInau Commlttaa on arrangement*. Planning of ceremony. "I take the official oath today, with no mental reservations,...the Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules .... I hold, that in contemplation 01 universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - 1964 - 644 páginas
...hesitation — all he says and means is plain and clear — and he avows that in taking the oath he does so "with no mental reservations, and with no purpose...constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules." The plainness and frankness with which he speaks must commend him to every mind, as desiring to be... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 páginas
...each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States?" I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...official and private stations, to conform to and abide by ah1 those acts which stand nnrepealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...merely an extension of that article, a part of the Constitution he had just sworn to uphold. He added: "I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations...the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules" (p. 118). In recognizing the limits on presidential power, inaugurals not only affirm the balance of... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 páginas
...beau ideal of a statesman," in a broad reading of the national charter, said in his First Inaugural: "I take the official oath today, with no mental reservations,...construe the Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules."2 Roosevelt, following his heroes Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in their robust conceptions... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 páginas
...understand it. speech, 27 February iSfio, In RP Basler (ed.) Collected Works ... ( I9S î) vol. î 8 1 take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. lirst inaugural address, 4 March iSfii, in RP Basler (ed. I Collecteil Works ... ( 1 9 s Î I vol.... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - 2006 - 368 páginas
...now left the Union. "I take the official oath today with no mental reservations," Lincoln continued, "and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypocritical rules." However, "if, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - 2006 - 241 páginas
...was what he meant when he said in the first inaugural address, "I take the official oath to-day . . . with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules." Howard Brotz has written that Douglass was "able to avoid doctrinairism" because his "theoretical reflections... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - 2007 - 275 páginas
...Constitution by enforcing the fugitive slave law foreshadowed Lincoln's fourth invocation of an oath: "I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations,...Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules." So far, this use of the oath of office, alongside the pledge to resist hypercritical constructions... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 páginas
...better angels of our nature. CVV IV: 262-271, Final Text (262-266, 268-271) The words were momentous: "I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations,...Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules" (emphasis mine). Those words would have resounding implications in his policies regarding slavery.... | |
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I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest... 
