 | Commerce - 1860 - 788 pages
...consequences. As observed by MARSHALL, Ch. J., in Marbury r». Madison, (1 Cranch, 165.) " By the constituton of the United States, the President is invested with...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... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1860 - 826 pages
...against Madison. The Supreme Court, in that case, expressed itself in the following language: " By the Constitution of the United States the President...to his country in his political character, and to hie own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1863 - 522 pages
...decision of the supreme court of the United States, given in the note* below, in the case of Mar• " By the constitution of the United States, the president...to his country in his political character, and to hi» tiury and Madison — making allowance for the position of the parties — is directly to this... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1865 - 382 pages
...civil cases at least, to possess an official inviolability. In the exercise of his political powers, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country, and to his own conscience. His decision, in relation to these powers, is subject to no control ; and... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...President is vested with a discretion In Marbury vs. Madison (1 Cranch, page 380) is the following: By the Constitution of the United States the President...political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties he is authorized to appoint certain officers to act by his authority... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 570 pages
...stated and maintained by Chief Justice Marshall in the great case of Marbury v, Madison.1 He says : " By the Constitution of the United States the President...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 624 pages
...United States, the President is invested with cerThe Norwalk Bonk «. The Adams Express Company. tain important political powers, in the exercise of which...his own discretion, and is accountable only to his coun try in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 pages
...civil cases at least, to possess an official inviolability. In the exercise of his political powers, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country, and to his own conscience. His decision, in relation to these powers, is subject to no control ; and... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 588 pages
...United States the President is invested th certain important political powers, in the exercise of which is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his intry in his political character, and to his own conscience, aid him in the performance of these duties,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...nature of the act. He then argues, that by the Constitution the President is invested with certain political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and for which he is accountable only to his country and his conscience, and that he has officers }x> aid... | |
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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.... 
