Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ...Gales & Seaton, 1834 - Law |
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... President of would make an insertion of the amendment to that effect , the Senate . That officer was not now in the chair . He he would pledge himself to make no objection to it . He had no doubt that good reasons could be shown for his ...
... President of would make an insertion of the amendment to that effect , the Senate . That officer was not now in the chair . He he would pledge himself to make no objection to it . He had no doubt that good reasons could be shown for his ...
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... President for consideration so long previous to and the President had sent his reasons here without in- the passage of the bill , and he had reflected upon it , it tending that there should be any reply to them . The was not to have ...
... President for consideration so long previous to and the President had sent his reasons here without in- the passage of the bill , and he had reflected upon it , it tending that there should be any reply to them . The was not to have ...
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... President on the 2d of March , and that he may entirely concurred in the suggestion for the printing of an extra number of the message . have acted upon some ninety or one hundred bills . But this is what occurs with every President on ...
... President on the 2d of March , and that he may entirely concurred in the suggestion for the printing of an extra number of the message . have acted upon some ninety or one hundred bills . But this is what occurs with every President on ...
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... President decided upon only by a majority of the members of that and the Senate as to justify the practice of his appointing House . He would , therefore , conclude by moving , as the committees . The power was not given him by the an ...
... President decided upon only by a majority of the members of that and the Senate as to justify the practice of his appointing House . He would , therefore , conclude by moving , as the committees . The power was not given him by the an ...
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... President . That feeling had been expressed by him yesterday ; and , after a night's reflection , he had again suggested the same delicate consideration . The Senator from Tennessee had said that he and the President might both be ...
... President . That feeling had been expressed by him yesterday ; and , after a night's reflection , he had again suggested the same delicate consideration . The Senator from Tennessee had said that he and the President might both be ...
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Page 177 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
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Page 67 - The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that...
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Page 305 - ... in such manner as the President of the United States shall from time to time order or instruct.