Special Message
03/02/1859
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It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive d...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...