 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1988 - 430 Seiten
...Jackson, in his veto message, ssid: "The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution....officer who takes an oath to support the constitution, sncars that he will support it as he understands it, snd not as it is understood by others. (11 bu... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1988 - 428 Seiten
...Jackson, in his veto message, said: "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 oalh to support the constitution, sncara that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 Seiten
...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....understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Again and again have I heard Judge Douglas denounce that bank decision, and applaud Gen. Jackson for... | |
 | Lawrence Frederick Kohl - 1991 - 279 Seiten
...assertion of Jackson's bank veto message which excited "deep alarm" among Whigs was his announcement that "each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Of course Jackson's intention in this statement was to shore up his own right to dissent from the Whig... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 224 Seiten
...issues, he would have insisted that "the Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution....understands it, and not as it is understood by others." 23 One can hardly imagine the firestorm of criticism that would descend upon a modern president who... | |
 | Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, Steven C. Wheatley, Melanie Beth Oliviero - 1993 - 416 Seiten
...pulpit from which to expound his own constitutional doctrines. As President Andrew Jackson said in 1832: Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others — The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has... | |
 | William Bondy - 1998 - 186 Seiten
...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....swears that he will support it as he understands it. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 Seiten
...Hart Benton Thirty Years' View (1856) vol. I 14 Each public officer who takes an oath to .-.upport the constitution swears that he will support it as...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. vetoing the hill to re-charter the Bank of the United States Presidential message, 10 July 18 32, in... | |
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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... 
