The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution, — it will be from no lack of constitutional... The Quarterly Review - Page 130edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
| 1908 - 1066 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit ; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution,...President has the Nation behind him and Congress has not. He has no means of compel1 Italics our own. ling Congress except through public opinion." This is what... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1914 - 988 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the constitution,...President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion." (P. 70.) The significance of... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 1908 - 264 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution,...President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion. That I say he has no means of... | |
| Reinhold Klotz - 1915 - 726 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution,...President has the Nation behind him and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion. "That I say he has no means of... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 1916 - 88 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution,...President has the nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion. That I say he has no means of... | |
| 1916 - 736 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit ; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution...President has the Nation behind him, and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion." Under the system as it stands... | |
| David Lawrence - 1924 - 384 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit ; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution...President has the nation behind him and Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion." Perhaps the most interesting... | |
| James Kerr Pollock - 1927 - 384 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit ; and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the Constitution,...the nation behind him, and „ \ Congress has not. He has no means of compelling Con' gress except through public opinion. That I say he has no means... | |
| 1908 - 272 pages
...to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit: and if congress be overborne by him it will be no fault of the makers of the constitution—...president has the nation behind him, and congress has not. He has no means of compelling congress except through public opinion. Mon«litnor John H. Fox. \ I.-nr-«;,-ui-r"l... | |
| Gary L. Gregg - 1997 - 266 pages
...power, but the only limit will be the officeholders' own capacity; "and if Congress be overborne by him, it will be no fault of the makers of the constitution,...has the nation behind him, and Congress has not." The presidency is essentially formless, holding the position that facilitates leadership but nearly... | |
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