 | John Huston Finley - 1919 - 374 Seiten
...slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the titled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States''? I...laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do 'not 5 choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it... | |
 | Robert L. Preston - 1919 - 100 Seiten
...dishonest age, Mr. Lincoln concluded his inaugural address with an assertion most peculiar when he said : "I take the official oath today with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution and laws by any hypocritical rules !" — "And saying he would ne'er consent, consented." For his administration... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 314 Seiten
...the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS MARCH 4, 1861 I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, / do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 312 Seiten
...the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS MARCH 4, 1861 I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations,...to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to he enforced, / do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. SAMTTEL JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1775) 17 I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules. LINCOLN — First Inaugural Address. March 4, 1861. 8 You can have no oath... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 498 Seiten
...Constitution which guarantees that " the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"? I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservation^ and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1926 - 544 Seiten
...many changes some of which Lincoln accepts. March 4th. ( Inaugural Address. ) I take the of ficial oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with...the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. I hold, that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States... | |
 | United States - 1961 - 1320 Seiten
...saying: PUBLIC LAW 87-1-MAR. 1, 1961 Centennial. LinInau Commlttaa on arrangement*. Planning of ceremony. "I take the official oath today, with no mental reservations,...the Constitution or laws, by any hypercritical rules .... I hold, that in contemplation 01 universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - 1964 - 644 Seiten
...hesitation — all he says and means is plain and clear — and he avows that in taking the oath he does so "with no mental reservations, and with no purpose...constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules." The plainness and frankness with which he speaks must commend him to every mind, as desiring to be... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 Seiten
...merely an extension of that article, a part of the Constitution he had just sworn to uphold. He added: "I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations...the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules" (p. 118). In recognizing the limits on presidential power, inaugurals not only affirm the balance of... | |
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I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest... 
