 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
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - 372 pages
...over this question arose partly from the opening words of the passage cited ahove — "Each puhlic officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution...swears that he will support it as he understands it". The President's opponents M Richardson, II, 581. » Ihid., p. 582. seized on this as a flagrant extension... | |
 | Colton C. Campbell, John F. Stack - 2001 - 344 pages
...unconstitutional. In his veto message, he 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." The opinion of judges, he said, has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress had... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - 2001 - 248 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 Constitution swears he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others . . . The opinion of... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 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... | |
 | James Perkins - 2004 - 136 pages
...of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." Andrew Jackson, 1832: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others... The opinion of judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress had over the... | |
 | Neal Devins, Louis Fisher - 2004 - 320 pages
...independent of both." Each public official, he said, takes an oath to support the Constitution and "swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others."45 Throughout this period, the Court played a supportive role to constitutional judgments by... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton Chambrun, Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 2004 - 306 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 Constitution swears that he will sup142 '43 • port it. as lie understands it, and not as it is understood by others. The opinion of... | |
 | David P. Currie - 2005 - 369 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 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...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Again and again have I heard Judge Douglas denounce that bank decision, and applaud General Jackson... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 2006 - 256 pages
...and the other justices were entitled to their views, he said, but these didn't bind the president. "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...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... | |
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