 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...executive in their charactersj Mr. Madison himself having declared the intention of the constitution to be "that the first magistrate should be responsible...our country, and compare it with the purer days of 1789 — with the race of our revolutionary fathers almost extinct, and passion, party, and ambition... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 800 pages
...characters; Mr. Madison himself having declared the intention of the constitution to be " that the 6rst magistrate should be responsible for the Executive...our country, and compare it with the purer days of 1789— with the race of our revolutionary fathers almost extinct, and passion, party, and ambition... | |
 | 1826 - 506 pages
...the first magistrate should te responsible for the executive department; so FAR THERE'FORB, AS WE DO NOT MAKE THE OFFICERS WHO ARE TO AID HIM IN THE DUTIES OF THAT DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE TO HIM, HE IS NOT RESPONSIULE TO MIS COCNTP.T;" and he theo proceeded with an able argument conceroing the executive... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 708 pages
...the first Magistrate should be responsible for the executive department; so far therelore as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he is not responsible to his country. Again, is there no danger that an officer, when he isi appointed... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1834 - 640 pages
...first Magistrate should be responsible for the Executive department; so far therefore as we do nofmake the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him. he is not responsible to his country. Again, is inere no danger that an officer, when he is appointed... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1834 - 172 pages
...First Magistrate should be responsible for the Executive " department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers '" who are to aid him in the duties of the said department responsi'" hie to him, he is not responsible to his country.' 1 ' This, sir, is... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 704 pages
...the chief magistrate should be responsible for the executive department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he is not responsible to the country." Mr. Lawrence also contended, that, " In the Constitution, the heads... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 774 pages
...the First Magistrate should be responsible for the executive department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he is not responsible to the country. Again, is there no danger that an officer, when he is appointed... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 776 pages
...the First Magistrate should be responsible for the executive department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he is not responsible to the country. Again, is there no danger that an officer, when he is appointed... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 312 pages
...magistrate ahould be responsible for the Executive Department, and that PO far, therefore, ns vre do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he irf not .responsible to the country, Basing hia argument mainly on the couftitututional provision that... | |
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It is evidently the intention of the Constitution that the first magistrate should be responsible for the executive department. So far, therefore, as we do not make the officers who are to aid him in the duties of that department responsible to him, he... 
