...to announce a doctrine totally indefensible. "Each public officer," said the message, " who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. . . . The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has...

...Supreme Court that Jackson in the veto uttered the famous sentence: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The arrival of the veto in the Senate was the signal for a grand explosion of oratory. Webster opened...

...than some unnamed source ? In his Bank veto message Jackson wrote : " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." In the review of the history of attempted nullifications on p. 101 there is no mention of the Persona!...

...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide...

...Jackson, in his celebrated message, vetoing the Bank bill, says : " Every public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." In this statement, as an, argument, there would seem to.be nothing but the most pernicious error. A...

...Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. . .It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives,...constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented t6 them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for...

...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." Id. at 402. At one point Lincoln observed that quoting Jefferson and Jackson to Douglas was like quoting...

...for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer, who takes an path to support the Constitution, swears that he will support...understands it. and not as it is understood by others." Id. at 402. At one point Lincoln observed that quoting Jefferson and Jackson to Douglas was like quoting...

...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of...

...force of their reasoning." Jackson believed that each public officer should support the Constitution "as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." He did not embrace, however, the Jeffersonians' unyielding hostility toward the courts. Rather, he...