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Of course, if the President can sit in judgment on the Tenure-of-Office Act, and set it aside as unconstitutional, there is no Act of Congress he may not treat in the same way.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Of course, if the President can sit in judgment on the Tenure-of-Office Act, and set it aside as unconstitutional, there…”
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Sumner asserts that if the President can disregard one law, he can disregard any law passed by Congress.
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