 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 318 pages
...the resolution which had been presented to him 'To admit then a right in the House of Eepresentatives to demand, and to have, as a matter of course, all...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent.'" ."The course which the debate has taken on the resolution of the House," adds Washington, " leads to... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1892 - 530 pages
...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate ; the principle on...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur, that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1896 - 646 pages
...treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Seuate, the principle on which that tody was formed confining it to a small number of members....power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 652 pages
...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 716 pages
...President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on which that body was formed confming it to a small number of members. To admit, then, a...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. was an express reservation, too, "excepting" from the call all such papers as related to "any existing... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 572 pages
...on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members. To admit, then, a right iu the House of Representatives to demand and to have...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. was an express reservation, too, "excepting" from tfce call all such papers as related to "any existing... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...of Washington's reply; action by the House.—By this move Washington forced the House of Repsmall number of members. To admit, then, a right in the...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. " It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...a right in the House of Representatives to demand and to have as a matter of course all the pipers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. " It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can he relative to any purpose under... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 564 pages
...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. " It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1908 - 732 pages
...secrecy was one cogent n -,,.v -n for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the principle on...power would be to establish a dangerous precedent. was an express reservation, too, "excepting" from the call all such papers as related to ' ' any existing... | |
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The necessity of such caution and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the president, with the advice and consent of the senate ; the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members.... 
