 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...following language: "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 general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our government. It... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 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... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 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... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 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 dutv of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President, to decide... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 668 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1879 - 724 pages
...veto-message, he says: " 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." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pages
...language: " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will who had been suspected of the murder. They would have it understood tha Mr. President, the general adoption of the sentiments expressed in this sentence would dissolve our... | |
 | Daniel F. Miller - 1880 - 204 pages
...language is, ' 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.' "Now, Mr. President, I conceive, with great deference, that the President has mistaken the purport... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1880 - 410 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... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 744 pages
...veto-message, he says: " Each puhlic 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." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
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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... 
