...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." We commend this committee's seriousness of purpose in considering the important constitutional issues...

...thus embodies a view of Congress's role articulated as long ago as 1832 by President Andrew Jackson: 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...

...veto message regarding the creation of the Bank of the United States on July 10, 1832, and I quote: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he or she will support it as he understands it and not as it is understood by others. The opinion of the...

...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...swears that he will support it as he understands it. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide...

...Jackson issued the following veto message regarding the creation of the Bank of the United States: Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...swears that he will support it as he understands it, ana not as it is understood by others. . . . The opinion of the judges has no more authority over the...

...Hart Benton Thirty Years' View (1856) vol. I 14 Each public officer who takes an oath to .-.upport the constitution swears that he will support it as...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. vetoing the hill to re-charter the Bank of the United States Presidential message, 10 July 18 32, in...

...unconstitutional. His veto message said that he had taken an oath of office to support the Constitution "as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." His position on the veto power has been followed by all subsequent Presidents. Regardless of the constitutional...

...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...

...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...he understands it, and not as it is understood by others."168 The apparent claim of Jefferson and Jackson was that chief executives (at least)169 should...

...has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both." "Each public official who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." 19 For this reason, Jackson— albeit in another context—is reputed to have said, "John Marshall...