...office. If any one doubts it, let him read the Veto Message of Jackson in 1832, where he declares: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it and not as it is understood by others." Now the Jackson party, we all know, is the "strict construction " party. It is strict in this way,—that...

...message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears tliat he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political excitement of the time obviously carried both parties to extremes. The position...

...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that lie will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political...

...Bank Bill, when he declared 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." But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his...

...to- fall, before the American people, the veto message, lie holds the following language : ' iCach public officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution,...support it as he understands it, and not as it is Senate passed condemnatory resolutions, and the President protested. He wished the protest placed on...

...coordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself, be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution....President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any hill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the Supreme...

...1811. It was in overruling the Supreme Court that Jackson in the veto uttered the famous sentence : " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The arrival of the veto in the Senate was the signal for a grand explosion of oratory. Webster opened...

...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...

...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...

...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 : —...