 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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." " The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over... | |
 | United States. Congress - 736 pages
...more fully hereafter. President Jackson declared, in his message to Congress of the 10th July, 1832, "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." In his manifesto of the 18lh September, 1833, he declared the power over the deposites belonged to... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 780 pages
...must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takei an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he...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 Wilson - 1874 - 754 pages
...of President Jackson, accompanying the veto of the United States bank, in which he affirmed that " each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Mr. Sumner avowed that he supported the Constitution as he understood it, and maintained that the Fugitive... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 648 pages
...as the force of their reasoning may deserve." Mark these words, and let them sink into your minds. " Each public officer, who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Yes, sir, AS HE UNDERSTANDS IT, and not as it is understood by others. Does any Senator here dissent... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 1874 - 318 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. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 644 pages
...of their reasoning may deserve." Mark these words, and let them sink into your minds. " Each pubhc officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution,...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Yes, sir, AS HE UNDERSTANDS IT, and not as it is understood by others. Does any Senator here dissent... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1908 - 864 pages
...precedent therefore which, Jf Its authority were admitted, ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears...understands it and not as it is understood by others. It Is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Sonate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 656 pages
...swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Yes, sir, AS HE UNDERSTANDS IT, and not as it is understood by others. Does any Senator here dissent from this rule ? Does the Senator from Virginia ? Does the Senator from... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 474 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. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
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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... 
