They had passed, over the veto of President Johnson, an act of disputed and quite doubtful constitutionality, seriously crippling the Executive power of removal from office, without which the President's constitutional duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed cannot be performed.
Hoar critiques a controversial act that undermined presidential authority and the execution of laws.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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