 | Michael A. Bamberger - 2000 - 260 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. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | Robert J. Spitzer - 2000 - 300 pages
...independent of both." "Each public official 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." 19 For this reason, Jackson— albeit in another context—is reputed to have said, "John Marshall... | |
 | Albert W. Alschuler - 2000 - 348 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."168 The apparent claim of Jefferson and Jackson was that chief executives (at least)169 should... | |
 | Colton C. Campbell, John F. Stack - 2001 - 344 pages
...unconstitutional. In his veto message, he said that he had taken an oath of office to support the Constitution "as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The opinion of judges, he said, has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress had... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - 2001 - 248 pages
...the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears 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 over... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 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. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | James Perkins - 2004 - 136 pages
...Jackson, 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 judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress had over the... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton Chambrun, Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 2004 - 306 pages
...courts of the United States, of which they have jurisdiction, and IN THE UNITED STATES. '43 • port 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 over... | |
 | Neal Devins, Louis Fisher - 2004 - 320 pages
...both." Each public official, he said, takes an oath to support the Constitution and "swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others."45 Throughout this period, the Court played a supportive role to constitutional judgments by... | |
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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... 
