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Updated: May 6, 2025

The next year saw, however, an enormous extension of the national domain, thanks to the President's far-seeing, if at the time unconstitutional, policy.

Edward Sylvester Ellis - Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch

The President was warned that the support of the Republican party was "of a cause and not of a man," that the "authority of Congress is paramount and must be respected," that the "whole body of Union men of Congress will not submit to be impeached by him or rash and unconstitutional legislation," that he must "confine himself to his Executive duties to obey and execute, not make the laws;" that he "must suppress armed rebellion by arms and leave political re-organization to Congress."

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

Sir Richard Phillips likewise made many excellent regulations as to the choosing and summoning of Juries, and pointed out those defects, and that unconstitutional management in packing of Juries, that have led to the recent inquiries and alterations in the Jury lists of the city of London, which render it possible that a fair and honest unpacked Jury may now be obtained in that city, in spite of the arts and tricks of those who have made it their business to convert them into every thing that is corrupt and partial.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

On the contrary, he withdrew all United States troops from the Indian country, and left the State to deal with the Indians as it chose. Later on, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Georgia law was unconstitutional because it took away the treaty rights of the Cherokees. "John Marshall has made his decision," said Jackson, "now let him enforce it."

William Garrott Brown - Andrew Jackson

This was of course done to give the unpopular candidate time to collect his forces, and to put in motion the whole machinery of corrupt influence; and, where that failed, the stronger means of unconstitutional dictation and arbitrary power. On our retiring from the hustings, Mr.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

The Colorado Supreme Court had declared it unconstitutional, and after the decision of the United States Supreme Court they continued to declare it unconstitutional, simply saying that the United States Supreme Court was wrong.

Frederic Jesup Stimson - Popular Law-making

When Lincoln called upon Governor Claiborne Jackson to supply Missouri's quota of three-month volunteers the Governor denounced the proposed coercion as "illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, and diabolical"; and thereafter did his best to make Missouri join the South. But Blair and Lyon were too quick for him. Blair organized the Home Guards, whom Lyon armed from the arsenal.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray

The legislative council was always ready to resist what it often asserted to be unconstitutional acts on the part of the house and direct infringements of "the rights of the crown" sometimes a mere convenient phrase used in an emergency to justify resistance to the assembly.

Sir John George Bourinot - Canada under British Rule 1760-1900

The Child Labor Law of 1916 was declared unconstitutional and the Narcotic Drug Act was sustained by a similar vote, 5 to 4.

Charles Wheeler Pierson - Our Changing Constitution

We subjoin, however, the following: The Vice-President of the United States in his speech on the Missouri question, quoted above, after contending that the restriction of slavery in Missouri would be unconstitutional, declares, that the power of Congress over slavery in the District "COULD NOT BE QUESTIONED." In the speech of Mr.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4