Life and timesBarnes & Burr, 1863 |
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27th Congress administration agent agricultural amount Andrew Jackson annual authority balance of trade bank bill branch Britain British Buren capital and labor cause cent centum Clay's commercial committee compromise act Congress consequence considered constitution cotton currency debt deposites domestic duties effect election England establish executive existence exports fact favor feelings foreign free trade friends HENRY CLAY honor hundred important increase industry interests Jackson legislation less locum tenens manufactures measure ment millions of dollars nation necessary never object occasion operation opinion party patriotic political present president principle produce prosperity protective policy protective system purpose question raw material reason resolution respect result revenue secretary secure senate session South Carolina specie supply supposed Taney tariff of 1842 taxes things thousand tion treasury twenty-seventh Congress Union United veto vote wealth whig whig party whole
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Página 98 - ... the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States...
Página 71 - 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. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders.
Página 71 - 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...
Página 72 - Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Página 118 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Página 321 - Gee (Joshua) The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered: Shewing, That the surest way for a Nation to increase in Riches, is to prevent the Importation of such Foreign Commodities as may be raised at Home.
Página 252 - ... laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government...
Página 19 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of congress has over the judges, and on that point the president is independent of both.
Página 249 - Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the humble instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided people — once more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted land — the pleasing ambition of contemplating the glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people...
Página 292 - Government, without limitation or restriction, saving the very inconsiderable reservation relating to their inspection laws. This authority having thus entirely passed from the states, the right to exercise it for the purpose of protection does not exist in them ; and consequently if it be not possessed by the General Government, it must be extinct. Our political system would thus present the anomaly of a people, stripped of the right to foster their own industry, and to counteract the most selfish...