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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... passed ? It was incident to all legislative bodies similarly constituted with ours , to have such questions be- fore them , and the course of proceeding in them was the only plain and obvious one that had hitherto always been pursued ...
... passed ? It was incident to all legislative bodies similarly constituted with ours , to have such questions be- fore them , and the course of proceeding in them was the only plain and obvious one that had hitherto always been pursued ...
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... passed at the last session , having been before the country for a whole year when it passed the two Houses , was placed before the Execu- tive , with a number of other measures , just before the close of the last Congress . As the ...
... passed at the last session , having been before the country for a whole year when it passed the two Houses , was placed before the Execu- tive , with a number of other measures , just before the close of the last Congress . As the ...
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... passed , and which the He was thus , as well as the country generally , put in President may have thought proper to ... passed by both Houses , substantially to the President . in the shape in which at the previous session it was passed ...
... passed , and which the He was thus , as well as the country generally , put in President may have thought proper to ... passed by both Houses , substantially to the President . in the shape in which at the previous session it was passed ...
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... passed at the last session , without material alteration , excepting the removal of the restriction of the States in the application of the proceeds , which he con- sidered as unnecessary . The bill was then read a first time , and ...
... passed at the last session , without material alteration , excepting the removal of the restriction of the States in the application of the proceeds , which he con- sidered as unnecessary . The bill was then read a first time , and ...
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... passed conceivable motive , in usurping powers not assigned to through all the forms of legislation , in both Houses ... passing with- out a dissenting voice . The following resolution , submitted by Mr. TIPTON yesterday , was then taken ...
... passed conceivable motive , in usurping powers not assigned to through all the forms of legislation , in both Houses ... passing with- out a dissenting voice . The following resolution , submitted by Mr. TIPTON yesterday , was then taken ...
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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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