 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 560 pages
...authority of the Supreme Court and his oath to support the Constitution. Here is his triumphant reply. "If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 566 pages
...authority of the Supreme Court, and this is his r.eply. " If the opinion of the Supreme Court cover the whole ground of this Act, it ought not to control...by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public oflicer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - 1875 - 364 pages
...bank by Congress in 1816, he says, — " If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole 221 ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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,... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 pages
...bureau; and that he had advised the Legislature of South Carolina on the same subject. The Congress, Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided...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... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 pages
...Jackson replied, in his veto of the bill extending the charter of the Bank that : — " The Supreme Court ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of...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,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 pages
...Jackson replied, in his veto of the bill extending the charter of the Bank that : — " The Supreme Court ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of...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,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 674 pages
...extending the charter of the Bank that : — " The Supreme Court ought not to control the co-ordinnte authorities of this government. The Congress, the...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,... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1880 - 410 pages
...ought lo weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the who.e ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Norcross - 1883 - 244 pages
...before State sovereignty had culminated in the South Carolina ordinance of nullification. He says: " The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must, each...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,... | |
 | William Watrous Crane, Bernard Moses - 1883 - 320 pages
...machinations of the rich. In his message vetoing the bank charter, he asserted : "The Congress, the executive, 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,... | |
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If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution.... 
