 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...upon any executive officer any duty it may think proper, which is not repugnant to any right which is secured and protected by the Constitution; and in...responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of law. Kendall v. US 12 Pet. 524; s. C. 5 Cranch CC 163 ; Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. Congress... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1881 - 868 pages
...Executive Department, the discharge of which is under the direction of the President. 15ut it would beau alarming doctrine, that Congress cannot impose upon...rights secured and protected by the Constitution; and his duty and responsibility in such cases grow out of and remain subject to the control of the law,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Albert J. Brunner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 772 pages
...officers of the executive department, the discharge of which is under the direction of the President. But it would be an alarming doctrine that Congress cannot...the Constitution ; and in such cases the duty and the responsibility grow out of, and are subject to, the control of the law, and not to the direction... | |
 | David Dudley Field - Law - 1884 - 532 pages
...money as due to them. The Court said that — "It would be an alarming doctrine that Congress can not impose upon any executive officer any duty they may think proper, which is not repngnant to any rights secured and protected by the Constitution ; and in such cases, the duty and... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Baker - Constitutional law - 1891 - 378 pages
...to their political duties they are under his direction. But the congress may impose ou such officers any duty they may think proper, which is not repugnant...protected by the constitution ; and in such cases the duties grow out of and are subject to the control of the law and not to the discretion of the president... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1895 - 1082 pages
...may, however, be cases in which the conduct of such officers is subject to examination by the courts, think proper which is not repugnant to any rights...of, and are subject to, the control of the law, and interfere to control it. Gaines r. Thompson, 7 Wall. (US) 347. The Secretary of the Navy is the organ... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1898 - 928 pages
...doctrine that. Congress can not impose upon any executive otlieer any duty they may think proj»er, which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected by the Constitution, and. in «uch ease-*, tin* duty' and responsibility grow out of and are subject to the control of the law and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 918 pages
...mandamus if Congress saw fit to give the jurisdiction." The court, in its opinion in this case, said: "But it would be an alarming doctrine that Congress cannot impose upon any execuiive officer any duty they may think proper which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected... | |
 | 1899 - 976 pages
...the court, per Thompson. J., " the discharge of which is under the direction of the president. But it would be an alarming doctrine that congress cannot impose upon any executive officer any duty tuey may think proper, which is not repugnant to any rights secured and protected by the Constitution;... | |
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But it would be an alarming doctrine, that congress cannot impose upon any executive officer any duty they may think proper, which is not repugnant to any right secured and protected by the constitution; and in such cases, the duty and responsibility... 
