 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1985 - 242 Seiten
...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...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1985 - 236 Seiten
...force of their reasoning." Jackson believed that each public officer should support the Constitution "as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." He did not embrace, however, the Jeffersonians' unyielding hostility toward the courts. Rather, he... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1988 - 428 Seiten
...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 is understood by others. • U is u much the duly oj the House of Representatives, of the SenaU, ' and of the President, to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1993 - 224 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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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... 
