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... Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 27edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
| Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1888 - 740 pages
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, lie says: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...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... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1889 - 590 pages
...Executive, and the court must each for itself bo guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Hach public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." If, was the natural reply, every one in authority is to construe the law privately for himself, and... | |
| Sir Henry Parkes - Australia - 1890 - 216 pages
...I am quoting from the message of the President conveying his veto on one of their Bills. He says : Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. Daniel Webster among others strongly condemned the .President, and thus spoke of it at the time : —... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each pnblic ollicrr, who takes nn oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not oa it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate,... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 396 pages
...oath of office. President Jackson, in his celebrated message, vetoing the Bank bill, says : " Every public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." In this statement, as an, argument, there would seem to.be nothing but the most pernicious error. A... | |
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