The Veto Power, and Its Exercise: In the Return of the Bill to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Fiscal Bank of the United States. August 16, 1841 |
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768.12 HARVARD COLLEGE acts of Congress admit adopt affirmed appropriate sphere approve bank shall establish Bank U. S. become a law BEQUEST OF EVERT bill passed BILL TO INCORPORATE branching power charter circumstances competent to read constitutionality contains as follows Cotemporaneous deliberately deny duties entrusted essen establish branches EVERT JANSEN WENDELL executing a power exer FISCAL BANK framers give my sanction gives the President govern its exercise ground houses improper INCORPORATE THE SUBSCRIBERS inexpedient infringe instance intended judgment judicial decisions judiciary justice larger portion legislation Legislature majority Maryland McCulloch ment mode National Bank necessary and proper necessary confidence necessity never oath occasions official opinions thus entertained plain power in question President a negative principles propriety provision refuse his signature Republican school return the bill sage views Senate sion sound circulating medium stitution tial ticket tion tive Tyler unconstitutional votes Wheat wisdom withhold his assent
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Page 24 - I shall promptly give my sanction to any constitutional measure which, originating in Congress, shall have for its object the restoration of a sound circulating medium...
Page 5 - It not only serves as a shield to the executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated to guard the community against the effects of faction, precipitancy, or of any impulse unfriendly to the public good which may happen to influence a majority of that body.
Page 24 - The extension of the prohibition to bills of credit must give pleasure to every citizen, in proportion to his love of justice and his knowledge of the true springs of public prosperity. The loss which America has sustained since the peace, from the pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary confidence in the public councils, on the industry and morals of the people, and on the character of republican government, constitutes an enormous debt...
Page 11 - There are some who would be inclined to regard the servile pliancy of the Executive to a prevailing current, either in the community or in the legislature, as its best recommendation. But such men entertain very crude notions, as well of the purposes for which government was instituted, as of the true means by which the public happiness may be promoted.
Page 24 - ... long remain unsatisfied, or rather an accumulation of guilt which can be expiated no otherwise than by a voluntary sacrifice on the altar of justice, of the power which has been the instrument of it. In addition to these persuasive considerations, it may be observed that the same reasons which show the necessity of denying to the States the power of regulating coin...
Page 12 - Government. Men most justly and deservedly esteemed for their high intellectual endowments, their virtue, and their patriotism, have, in regard to it, entertained different and conflicting opinions. Congresses have differed. The approval of one President has been followed by the disapproval of another.
Page 4 - ... has been inferred and proved. From these clear and indubitable principles results the propriety of a negative, either absolute or qualified, in the executive upon the acts of the legislative branches. Without the one or the other, the...
Page 13 - Entertaining the opinions alluded to, and having taken this oath, the Senate and the country will see that I could not give my sanction to a measure of the character described without surrendering all claim to the respect of honorable men — all confidence on the part of the people — all self-respect — all regard for moral and religious obligations, without an observance of which no Government can be prosperous, and no people can be happy.
Page 5 - From these clear and indubitable principles, results the propriety of a negative, either absolute or qualified, in the executive, upon the acts of the legislative branches. Without the one or the other, the former would be absolutely unable to defend himself against the depredations of the latter.
Page 24 - America has sustained since the peace, from the pestilent effects of paper money on the necessary confidence between man and man, on the necessary confidence in the public councils, on the industry and morals of the people, and on the character of republican government, constitutes an enormous debt against the States chargeable with this unadvised measure, which must long remain unsatisfied ; or rather an accumulation of guilt, which can be expiated no otherwise than by a voluntary sacrifice on the...