 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...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 115by Daniel Webster - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 566 pages
...the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public oflicer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and*not as it it understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 pages
...opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, ivho takes an oath to support the Constitution, sivears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is ^mderstood by others*. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...LNTERPRET THE LAW FOR HIMSELF. Isr that important document upon which it seems to be the President's fate to stand or to fall before the American people,...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... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 pages
...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...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 Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 724 pages
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 732 pages
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Daniel F. Miller - 1880 - 204 pages
...announces that each public officer may interpret the Constitution as he pleases. His language is, ' Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others.' "Now, Mr. President, I conceive, with great deference, that the President has mistaken the purport... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1880 - 414 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 744 pages
...binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, he says: " Each puhlic officer who takes an oath to support the constitution,...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
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