 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1988 - 428 pages
...constitution. Each public officer who takes an oalh to support the constitution, sncara that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. • U is u much the duly oj the House of Representatives, of the SenaU, ' and of the President, to... | |
 | Lawrence Frederick Kohl - 1991 - 279 pages
...announcement that "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 by others." Of course Jackson's intention in this statement was to shore up his own right to dissent from the Whig... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pages
...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 by others." Again and again have I heard Judge Douglas denounce that bank decision, and applaud Gen. Jackson for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - 1993 - 216 pages
...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 by others." We commend this committee's seriousness of purpose in considering the important constitutional issues... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 224 pages
...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 by others." 23 One can hardly imagine the firestorm of criticism that would descend upon a modern president who... | |
 | Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, Steven C. Wheatley, Melanie Beth Oliviero - 1993 - 416 pages
...said in 1832: 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 by others — The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has... | |
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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... 
