It is due to candor, as well as to my own feelings, that I should express the reluctance and anxiety which I must at all times experience in exercising the undoubted right of the Executive to withhold his assent from bills on other grounds than their constitutionality.
Jackson expresses his reluctance and anxiety about exercising the executive power to veto bills for reasons beyond their constitutionality.
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I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations
For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.
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I communicate to Congress printed copies of the treaty of peace and commerce between the United States and the Empire of Morocco, concluded at Meccanez on the 16th day of September last, and duly ratified by the respective Governments.
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