A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 3Bureau of national literature, 1908 |
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... Congress rechartering the present bank , upon which the President felt it his duty to put his constitutional veto . In his message returning that act he repeated and enlarged upon the principles and views briefly asserted in his annual ...
... Congress rechartering the present bank , upon which the President felt it his duty to put his constitutional veto . In his message returning that act he repeated and enlarged upon the principles and views briefly asserted in his annual ...
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... Congress is no limitation . Had it not been inserted he would have been responsible to Congress had he made a removal for any other than good reasons , and his responsibility now ceases upon the rendition of sufficient ones to Congress ...
... Congress is no limitation . Had it not been inserted he would have been responsible to Congress had he made a removal for any other than good reasons , and his responsibility now ceases upon the rendition of sufficient ones to Congress ...
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... Congress to decide upon the best substitute to be adopted in the place of the Bank of the United States , and the Presi- dent would have felt himself relieved from a heavy and painful responsi- bility if in the charter to the bank Congress ...
... Congress to decide upon the best substitute to be adopted in the place of the Bank of the United States , and the Presi- dent would have felt himself relieved from a heavy and painful responsi- bility if in the charter to the bank Congress ...
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... Congress should be equally extensive , and that for the repayment of such duties as may have been improperly received an addition should be made to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress for refund- ing discriminating ...
... Congress should be equally extensive , and that for the repayment of such duties as may have been improperly received an addition should be made to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress for refund- ing discriminating ...
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... Congress , as a matter of compromise , with unusual unanimity , and unless it is found to pro- duce more than the necessities of the Government call for there would seem to be no reason at this time to justify a change . But while I ...
... Congress , as a matter of compromise , with unusual unanimity , and unless it is found to pro- duce more than the necessities of the Government call for there would seem to be no reason at this time to justify a change . But while I ...
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Page 61 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 268 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 69 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 60 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 147 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 8 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 435 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 198 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 186 - Michigan : and whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states . in . all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 230 - I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with documents containing the information requested by their resolution of the 26tft ultimo.