Special Message
04/08/1844
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For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents th...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
No reason is perceived for the discrimination recognized by the existing Law, and none why the provisions of the acts of...