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.... The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 251by Charles Sumner - 1871Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 734 pages
...refusing to approve the bill for prolonging the charter of the Bank of the United States, as follows: "If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...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... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...refusing to approve the bill for prolonging the charter of the Bank of the United States, as follows: "If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Philo Ashley Goodwin - Generals - 1832 - 448 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...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... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1833 - 710 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Andrew Jackson - United States - 1835 - 292 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...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... | |
| United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) - Presidents - 1837 - 460 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...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... | |
| Robert Mayo - Mexico - 1839 - 234 pages
...1832, in the course of a long and vapid argument, which characterizes all his state papers, he says — 'If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...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... | |
| Robert Mayo - Mexico - 1839 - 246 pages
...in the course of a long and vapid argument, which characterizes all his state papers, he says—'If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole...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... | |
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