 | John Taylor - 1804 - 148 pages
...resort to them as our unerring guides. The constitutional duties and powers of the President are : 1. To give to congress, from time to time, information of the state of the union, and to recommend, to their consideration, such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.... | |
 | John Randolph - 1806 - 96 pages
...compass or polar star, I will not launch into an ocean of unexplored measures, which stand cofrdemned by all the information to which I have access. The...consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient and necessary." Has he done it? I know, sir, that we may say, and do say, that we are independent ; (would... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - 158 pages
...disagreement about the period of adjournment should arise between them. In relation to his duties, he is bound to give to congress, from time to time, information of the state of the union, and recommend such measures as he may think conducive to the public interest — he must also see that... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 492 pages
...disagreement about the period of adjournment should arise between them. In relation to his duties, he is bound to give to Congress, from time to time, information of the state of the Union, and recommend such measures as he may think conducive to the public interest — he must also see that... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 742 pages
...the part of the Executive, unknown to the Constitution. That ' instrument makes it his duty " to give Congress, from time to time, information of the state of the Union." Гго;п this duty results his power of sending agents abroad, merely for the purpose of obtaining... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 554 pages
...the senate, by commissions, to expire at the end of their next session. It was likewise made his duty to give to congress from time to time, information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration, such measures as he should judge necessary and expedient, and... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - 1833 - 404 pages
...senate by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session. It is made his duty to give to congress from time to time, information of the state of the union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 pages
...amended or rejected. But though the president does not originate laws, he is required by the constitution to give to congress from time to time, information of the state of the union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary and expedient. Thus,... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 528 pages
...either House. § Moreover, it is made the constitutional duty of the President of the United States to give to Congress, from time to time, information of the state of the Union. || The documents in which this information is conveyed are very numerous ; and they are not only indispensable... | |
 | Robert Mayo - 1839 - 246 pages
...naught. Why then would it not be better to restrict him in this regard, to the duty of laying before congress from time to time, information of the state of the union, and leave it to them to devise the proper measures, by individual suggestions or by those of their... | |
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Has he done it ? I know, sir, that we may say, and do say, that we are independent (would it were true) ; as free to give a direction to the executive as to receive it from him. 
