 | United States. Congress - Law - 1908 - 864 pages
...admitted, ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it and not as it is understood by others. It Is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Sonate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 648 pages
...let them sink into your minds. " 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 by others." Yes, sir, AS HE UNDERSTANDS IT, and not as it is understood by others. Does any Senator here dissent... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 318 pages
...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 by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Eepresentatives, of the Senate and of the President to decide... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - History - 1875 - 364 pages
...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,...on that point the President is independent of both" This is the same monstrous assertion that was made by the President in the Cherokee case. Scarcely... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 870 pages
...quoted the opinion of President Jefferson, to which let us add that of President Jackson, who says : " The opinion of the judges has no more authority over...the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on this point the president is independent of both. The authority of the supreme court must not, therefore,... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...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 by others. That he had the same right to remove Stanton that Lincoln had to remove Floyd, the They held the tenure-of-office... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 474 pages
...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 by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...he holds the following language: "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 by others." The general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our government. It would... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 704 pages
...approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over...on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 668 pages
...approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over...on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the... | |
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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 by others. 
