What was called Senatorial Courtesy required every Senator belonging to the party in the majority to support every other in demanding the right to dictate and control the executive and judicial appointments from their respective States.
Hoar critiques the practice of Senatorial Courtesy, highlighting its implications on governance.
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When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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