Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone could have a claim of right, Congress could not under the Constitution restrain the free selection of the President from the whole body of his fellow-citizens, I shall only further remark that if that impression is well founded all objection to these appointments must cease.
Special Message
Share
More from James Monroe
Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and on mature consideration, I deem it…
The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy
Other voices in this conversation
