According to my judgment it cannot be derived from either of those powers, nor from all of them united, and in consequence it does not exist...
I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, that no such document...
A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execu...
On full consideration of the subject I have thought it would be improper for the Executive to communicate the letter called for unless the H...
I am of opinion that Congress do not possess this power; that the States individually cannot grant it.
On the perusal of the document called for I find that it communicates a difference of opinion between Mr. Russell and a majority of his coll...
I recommend them particularly to the consideration of Congress, believing that although there may be ground for controversy with regard to t...
I communicate to them herewith copies of the communications received from the Norwegian Government in relation to the subject, and recommend...
I transmit herewith to Congress copies of letters received at the Department of State from the minister of Great Britain on the subject of t...
requesting to be furnished with a copy of the judicial proceedings in the United States court for the district of Louisiana in the case of t...
To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives copies of sundry papers having relation to the transactions i...
I now transmit a report from the Secretary or State, containing the information embraced by that resolution.
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in the discharge of this ...
In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the grades and corps to ...
Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone could have a claim of...
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in serv...
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitled 'An act to reduce ...
