The Congressional GlobeBlair & Rives, 1840 - Law |
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Page 45
... Executive action in this Government , and that it was time for the Representatives of the people to spurn at Executive dictation , and assert their own inde- pendence . It was time , he said , that they should redeem the House from a ...
... Executive action in this Government , and that it was time for the Representatives of the people to spurn at Executive dictation , and assert their own inde- pendence . It was time , he said , that they should redeem the House from a ...
Page 69
... Executive influence . He looked upon this viva voce principle as one of the most powerful engines of Executive influence , and it was essentially important that it should be de- stroyed . Every man who had been in this House for the ...
... Executive influence . He looked upon this viva voce principle as one of the most powerful engines of Executive influence , and it was essentially important that it should be de- stroyed . Every man who had been in this House for the ...
Page 70
... Executive influence . He trembled when he thought what might arise from extraneous in finences brought to bear upon the in- dependence of this House . As far as the iron sway of Executive control is concerned , thank God ! we have the ...
... Executive influence . He trembled when he thought what might arise from extraneous in finences brought to bear upon the in- dependence of this House . As far as the iron sway of Executive control is concerned , thank God ! we have the ...
Page 71
... Executive influence and Executive power , during the highest excitements of party . These charges have been made time after time , for political effect , for the last five or six Jears ; and never had there been a single charge ve ...
... Executive influence and Executive power , during the highest excitements of party . These charges have been made time after time , for political effect , for the last five or six Jears ; and never had there been a single charge ve ...
Page 73
... Executive , and prevent them from being made the subservient tools of Executive will and power . But it was still more necessary to protect them from the great central heads nan at Washington , whose ire was even more to be dreaded than ...
... Executive , and prevent them from being made the subservient tools of Executive will and power . But it was still more necessary to protect them from the great central heads nan at Washington , whose ire was even more to be dreaded than ...
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