 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 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 - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...to stand or to fall before the American people, the veto message, he holds the following language: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...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 - Banks and banking - 1877 - 704 pages
...authorities of this government. The Congress, the executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each...not as it is understood by others. It is as much the dutv of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...to stand or to fall before the American people, the veto message, he holds the following language: " us, Mr. President, the general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 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... | |
 | Daniel F. Miller - Oratory - 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 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... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1883 - 1076 pages
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was tliat"each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution,...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political excitement of thetime obviously carried both parties to extremes. The position of... | |
 | Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 pages
...must each for itself be guided bv its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, when he takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it." The House, the Senate, and the Pres. must each decide on the constitutionality of a measure before... | |
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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... 
