Andrew Jackson actually said...

I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law.

It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an unlimited power over t...

Had there been incorporated in the bill no provisions for works of a different description, depending on principles which extend the power o...

I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforcement.