 | United States. President - Presidents - 1853 - 536 pages
...number of members. To admit, then, a right in the house of representatives to demand, and to Lave, as a matter of course, all the papers respecting a...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 574 pages
...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the president, with the advice and consent of the senate ; the principle on...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the president, with the advice and consent of the senate, the principle on...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. * * * " Having been a member of the general convention, aud knowing the principles on which the constitution... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 468 pages
...confining it to a small number of members. " To admit then a right in the Hc'ise of Reprbsentatives to demand and to have as a matter of course, all the...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. " It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 794 pages
...HQÚIber of members. To admit, then, a right in the HOUM of Representatives to demand, and to havr, аз a matter of course, all the papers respecting a negotiation...Power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to any purpose under... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 652 pages
...that body was formed confining it to a small number of members. To admit, then, a right in the Ilouse of Representatives to demand, and to have, as a matter...had been concluded and ratified by the President and the Senate, and the negotiations in relation to it had been terminated. There was an express reservation,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 468 pages
...members. " To admit then a right in the Hnse of Representatives to demand and to have as a matter nf course, all the papers respecting a negotiation with...a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precodent. 41 It dr>C8 not occur that the inspection oi the papers asked for, can be relative to any... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 802 pages
...president, with the advice and consent of the senate; the principle on which that body wa>i formed confimng it to a small number of members. To admit, then, a...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. " It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for can be relative to anj purpose under... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1861 - 644 pages
...number of members. To admit, then, a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have, os a matter of course, all the papers respecting a negotiation...instructions and documents called for, related to a treat; which had been concluded and ratified by the President and the Senate, and the negotiations... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 320 pages
...peculiarly delicate He returned the following answer to the resolution which had been presented to him 'To admit then a right in the House of Representatives...power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent.'" ."The course which the debate has taken on the resolution of the House," adds Washington, " leads to... | |
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The necessity of such caution and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the president, with the advice and consent of the senate ; the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members.... 
