If there was a difference of opinion as to the intent and meaning of a law, the general judgment in the case supposed would be that the President had the right to act upon his own conscientious construction of the statute.
Blaine discusses the President's right to interpret laws based on personal judgment in the context of impeachment.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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