 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 472 pages
...therefore, which, if its authority were admitted, ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. • If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...executive, and the court, must each for itself, be be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 708 pages
...precedent, therefore, which, if its authority were admitted, ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. If the opinion of the supreme court covered the whole...government. The congress, the executive and the court, roust each for itself, be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer who takes... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1853 - 544 pages
...precedent, therefore, which, if its authority were admitted, ought to weigh in favor to the act before me. 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...support the Constitution. Here is his triumphant reply : " If the opinion of the Supreme Court covers the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control...guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each ]mltlic officer, who lakes an oath to support the Constitution, sioean thai he will support it as he... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1858 - 822 pages
...precedent, therefore, which, if its authority were admitted, ought to weigh in favor of the act before me. " If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...Congress, the Executive, and the court, must each for itseíf be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...of the Senate Journal for the first session of the Twenty-second Congress, and is in these words : If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself he guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takes an oath to support... | |
 | Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...of the Senate Journal for the first session of the Twenty-second Congress, and is in these words : If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself bo guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takes an oath to support... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...of the Senate Journal for the first session of the Twenty-second Congress, and is in these words : If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for iUelf be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takes an oath to support... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...of the Senate Journal for the first session of the Twenty -second Congress, and is in these words : If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, aud the Court, must each for itself bo guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 808 pages
...Court, ho held that that "ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of the Government; " that "Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided Iff ia own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution... | |
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The Congress, the executive, and the court, must each for itself, be 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... 
