 By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.  The American Law Register and Review - Page 1691894Full view - About this book
 | John Marshall - Political Science - 1905 - 518 pages
...particular cases ; but there cannot, it is believed, be much difficulty in laying down the rule. By the constitution of the United States, the President...his political character and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act... | |
 | Frank J. Goodnow - Administrative law - 1906 - 740 pages
...particular cases ; but there cannot, it is believed, be much difficulty in laying down the rule. By the Constitution of the United States, the President...his political character and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act... | |
 | Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1906 - 1044 pages
...it is, of course, his judgment or discretion that is to be Chief Justice Marshall observed: «t1 "By the constitution of the United States, the president...his political character and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act... | |
 | Frank Johnson Goodnow - Administrative law - 1906 - 268 pages
...exercise of which,' in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, 'he is to use his own discretion and is accountable...character and to his own conscience, and whatever opinioa may be entertained of the manner in which the executive discretion may be used, still there... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - Constitutional history - 1907 - 256 pages
...165, 2 L. ed. 6o, 69, in an elaborate opinion, from which the following observations are quoted : "By the Constitution of the United States, the President...his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, John Archibald Fairlie, Frederic Austin Ogg - Political science - 1908 - 718 pages
...the Constitution of the United States," says Chief Justice Marshall in the case, Marbury v. Madison, "the president is invested with certain important...his political character and to his own conscience. * * * "Where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - Executive power - 1908 - 366 pages
...of the Executive and judicial powers, thus stated the position of the heads of the departments: "By the Constitution of the United States the President...exercise of which he is to use his own discretion and is answerable only to his country in his political character and to his own conscience. To aid him in... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 608 pages
...the execution of powers of the first class he is independent of Congress, or even of the courts. "By the Constitution of the United States the President...invested with certain important political powers, in the exereise of which he is to use his own discrction, and is aecountable only to his country in his political... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - Executive power - 1908 - 372 pages
...important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion and is answerable only to his country in his political character and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers who act... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines - Courts - 1909 - 194 pages
...the court ought not to enter. Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Marbury vs. Madison said, " by the Constitution of the United States, the President...his political character and to his own conscience." 1 It was also held that " where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of... | |
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