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He had no Act of Congress warranting it, and the Supreme Court has decided that the act was against the express provisions of the Constitution.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “He had no Act of Congress warranting it, and the Supreme Court has decided that the act was against the express…”
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Blaine points out the lack of legal authority for the president's actions, underscoring a constitutional violation.
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Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…
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