 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1880 - 414 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 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 - 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... | |
 | Jonathan Norcross - 1883 - 244 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... | |
 | Meeds Tuthill - 1883 - 302 pages
...office. If any one doubts it, let him read the Veto Message of Jackson in 1832, where he declares: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it and not as it is understood by others." Now the Jackson party, we all know, is the "strict construction " party. It is strict in this way,—that... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pages
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that lie will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political... | |
 | United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - 1981 - 272 pages
...the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its ow n 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... | |
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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... 
