 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...pleases. His language is, " Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, vwears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." * * * " The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the coordinate...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1844 - 512 pages
...to fall, before the American people, the veto message, 152 he holds the following language : — " Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it us he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Mr. President, the general adoption of... | |
 | Eulogies - 1845 - 288 pages
...ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 968 pages
...ought to weigh in favor to the act before me. If the opinion of the supreme court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1847 - 306 pages
...ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1847 - 306 pages
...ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 pages
...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 the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Mr. President, the general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 90 pages
...of the Supreme Court, and this is his reply : " If the opinion of the Supreme Court covers the whole ground of this Act, it ought not to control the coordinate...takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears thai he toil! support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1853 - 544 pages
...of the supreme court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others."} It is as much the duty of the house of representative's, of the senate, and of the president, to decide... | |
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If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution.... 
