 | 1865 - 838 pages
..." in the late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, the President had assumed a power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." This was almost too much for the temperament of General Jackson to bear. He drew up an angry protest... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - United States - 1868 - 500 pages
...President, in the late executive proceeding 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." It contemplated no action, and had no connection with legislation. It was not directed to anybody,... | |
 | Henry Clay - History - 996 pages
...the sort or magnitude requiring impeachment. "It simply affirmed that he had 'assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.' It imputed no criminal motives." Criticizes the friends of the president for introducing the constitutional... | |
 | Robert J. Spitzer - Political Science - 1988 - 206 pages
...President in the late executive proceeding 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." (Congressional Globe, March 28, 1834: 271) 5. Kent first proposed this amendment on December 24, 1833... | |
 | Government publications - 1989 - 90 pages
...President Jackson for his act of defiance. The Senate resolved that the president had "assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri dismissed this action as "a mere personal censure — having... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 304 pages
...moneys from the Bank of the United States, the Senate passed a resolution censuring him for assuming a power ' ' not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Two years later, with an administration majority in the Senate, Benton's "expunging resolution" came... | |
 | Brian J. Cook - Business & Economics - 1996 - 236 pages
...Andrew Jackson, in his removal of Secretary of the Treasury William J. Duane, had assumed "upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both" (Richardson 1911, 3:69). On April 15, Jackson had sent to the Senate a message of protest, requesting... | |
 | Gary L. Gregg - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 266 pages
...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." President Jackson responded to the Senate on April 15 with a long and detailed protest of that body's... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Impeachments - 1998 - 452 pages
...that, in withdrawing federal funds from the Bank of the United States, he had "assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." Telling are the words of protest from President Jackson, which the Senate refused to enter on its Journal:... | |
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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. 
