 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pages
...message, was tliat"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 high political excitement of thetime obviously carried both parties to extremes. The position of... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pages
...was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears tliat he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political excitement of the time obviously carried both parties to extremes. The position... | |
 | Jonathan Norcross - 1883 - 244 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... | |
 | Meeds Tuthill - 1883 - 302 pages
...he declares: "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 the Jackson party, we all know, is the "strict construction " party. It is strict in this way,—that... | |
 | William Watrous Crane, Bernard Moses - 1883 - 320 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." This has been much criticised, but if we limit its assertion of independence of judgment to acts proposed,... | |
 | Horace Davis - 1884 - 100 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... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1905 - 480 pages
...Works, 141, 142). JACKSON AND VAN BUREN. 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... | |
 | United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - 1981 - 272 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1985 - 236 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... | |
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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... 
