Third Annual Message
12/04/1843
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I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or su...
It is only after acquiring Texas, that the question of boundary can arise between the United States and Mexico.
All nations are interested in enforcing an observance of those principles.
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...