Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ..., Volume 2; Volume 10; Volume 59Gales & Seaton, 1825 |
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Page 1397
... character , in the first representative body . place , that it perplexed the discrimination of the Senate Sir , the President of the United States has been mis- to know what preliminary disposition to make of it . Some led . He is ...
... character , in the first representative body . place , that it perplexed the discrimination of the Senate Sir , the President of the United States has been mis- to know what preliminary disposition to make of it . Some led . He is ...
Page 1403
... character of the moves him , and pursues the same process until he finds a original document , and of the explanation which had been tool to obey his will , and thus abrogates the decree of the sent to them , he would read a paragraph ...
... character of the moves him , and pursues the same process until he finds a original document , and of the explanation which had been tool to obey his will , and thus abrogates the decree of the sent to them , he would read a paragraph ...
Page 1405
... character ; for neither of the resolutions are , strictly speak- explain away , some assertions of power too flagrant for ing , legislative acts , but they are required to be passed the present times to bear , and too openly and boldly ...
... character ; for neither of the resolutions are , strictly speak- explain away , some assertions of power too flagrant for ing , legislative acts , but they are required to be passed the present times to bear , and too openly and boldly ...
Page 1407
... character , " in a public manner , and by his recorded to decide a constitutional question for me . The fact that sentence , but without precedent , competent authority , or weighs so strongly on his mind to prove it unconstitution ...
... character , " in a public manner , and by his recorded to decide a constitutional question for me . The fact that sentence , but without precedent , competent authority , or weighs so strongly on his mind to prove it unconstitution ...
Page 1409
... character , by resolutions , as in the case of the moment to the practical operation of this power in the two resolutions passed on the subject of the deposites . hands which at present wield it . It is not true that the President has ...
... character , by resolutions , as in the case of the moment to the practical operation of this power in the two resolutions passed on the subject of the deposites . hands which at present wield it . It is not true that the President has ...
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Page 1629 - 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 1909 - Miami aforesaid; and on the north by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line...
Page 1471 - ... legislatures exercise the same power ; and every court does the same ; that, if we have it not, we sit at the mercy of every intruder who may enter our doors or gallery, and, by noise and tumult, render proceeding in business impracticable ; that if our tranquillity is to be perpetually disturbed by newspaper defamation, it will not be possible to exercise our functions with the requisite coolness and deliberation ; and that we must 'therefore have a power to punish these disturbers of our peace...
Page 1469 - Fortescue, in the name of his brethren, declared " that they ought not to make answer to that question ; for it hath not been used aforetime that the justices should in any wise determine the privileges of the high court of parliament For it is so high and mighty in its nature, that it may make law; and that which is law it may make no law; and the determination and knowledge of that privilege belongs to the lords of parliament, and not to the justices
Page 1471 - Congress a power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises ; to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence, and general welfare of the United States, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States...
Page 1667 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, — whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 1963 - Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted.
Page 1501 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its 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.
Page 1503 - Department," approved September two, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it was provided that it should be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and keep the moneys of the United States, and to disburse the same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, countersigned by the Comptroller, and recorded by the Register, and not otherwise...
Page 1629 - President's opinion, and by appointing his successor to effect such removal, which has been done, the President has assumed the exercise of a power over the Treasury of the United States, not granted to him by the Constitution and laws, and dangerous to the liberties of the people.