The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law.
This precedent, and perhaps some Imperial rescript, which was issued in consequence of it, appeared to authorize the governors of provinces, in punishing with death the refusal of the Christians to deliver up their sacred books.
But to enter myself as a competitor of others, or to authorize any one so to enter me, is what my word and honor forbid.
But whatever may have been intended by the letter, the law did not confer any authority upon the Postmaster General to issue or authorize the issue of the stamp and undertake to insist on its use.
It was suggested in New York to Mr. Morris, your postmaster, that he might accommodate the public very much by selling stamped envelopes, as the law does not authorize the sale of stamps on the English plan.
It increases the power of the Republic to do equal and exact justice to all its citizens, and curtails the power of the States to shelter the wrong-doer or to authorize crime by a statute.
Intend to write my friend Young about it, and authorize him to draw if the project seems feasible.
I hereby authorize you to act in my behalf, and do whatever is to be done without hesitancy.
To accomplish this it may be necessary to authorize the interest to be paid at either of three or four of the money centers of Europe, or by any assistant treasurer of the United States, at the option of the holder of the bond.
I renew the recommendation made in my message of December, 1870, that Congress authorize the Postmaster-General to issue all commissions to officials appointed through his Department.
Would it not be just as honest and prudent to authorize each debtor to issue his own legal-tenders to the extent of his liabilities?
To secure the latter I see but one way, and that is to authorize the Treasury to redeem its own paper, at a fixed price, whenever presented, and to withhold from circulation all currency so redeemed until sold again for gold.
It is understood to be customary with other governments to authorize consuls to extend such relief to their citizens or subjects in certain cases.
In point of fact, Jefferson himself believed the step he and Congress were taking to be beyond their present powers, and would have preferred to have asked for a Constitutional Amendment to authorize it.
It is not a military bill, or a bill to authorize Reconstruction by military power; but it is a bill essentially civil from beginning to end.
Why does this law authorize or sanction, and why do our Constitution and statutes, following the Law of Nations, authorize and sanction, a difference of rank, except to obtain corresponding degrees of influence?
Remarks in the Senate, on a Joint Resolution to authorize the Purchase for Congress of the Law Library of the Late James L.
Here he said:-- I am unwilling to doubt that Congress may authorize their officers to do that.
A Bill to authorize the use in post-offices of weights of the denomination of grams.
A state act, and subsequent city ordinance, authorize the Bureau of Health and Department of Public Safety to provide for the removal of garbage.
We are about to send an agent to Nevada to look after some mining interests of our own, and will authorize him also to look up the Golden Hope mine.
Therefore I will authorize you to obtain from them an itemized account of what they have spent for him and the boy and pay it.
Council of the Royal Society will authorize its addition to the paper in the form of a supplementary note.
I am not aware of any distinct facts which authorize the conclusion that it is in a particular state.
The paintings of Mexican America, though rude, contain proofs of progressive ages, whereby facts may be gathered, supported by traditions, toauthorize the formation of a chronological arrangement of events.
Enough has been adduced in support of the Expedition, as mentioned by Herodotus, to authorize a continuation of the subject.
If every king will make his own officers, or authorize the greater to make the less, none must presume to make Christ officers and churches without his commission.
He hath no where given to any other either command to oblige them to do it or commission to authorize them, or promise to bless and accept them in it, or threatening if they omit it.
It may be a casus omissus in the Constitution; but I should like to know where the power exists in the Constitution of the United States to authorize the Federal Government to coerce a sovereign State.
The reports of commanding officers, on the results of these small ameliorations, after a six months' trial, were so favourable that I was able to authorize still further concessions as a premium on good behaviour.
To the settlement of Herat, which is not included in these completed arrangements, the Governor-General in Council cannot authorize you to make or invite any reference in your reply to Abdur Rahman.
Neither in the events nor in the writings of the period is it easy to find anything which can authorize the accusations made by the foes of Queen Blanche.
Poitiers; and the king asked the pope to authorize an inquiry touching the Templars and the accusations made against them.
The one definite instruction we did give him with regard to that was to authorize him to come up without a pilot.
Further, as was stated by Sir Alfred Booth, "The one definite instruction we did give him with regard to that was to authorize him to come up without a pilot.
I did not know of any experiments which mightauthorize a denial of it.
They have since proposed, that the certificate of their consul shall accompany the oils, to authorize their admission, and this is what they will probably adopt.
The wildness of the theories hitherto proposed by him, on his own discoveries, seems to authorize us to consider his merit as that of a good optician only.
I do not think, however, that the success of the Turks in the partisan affairs which have taken place, can authorize us to presume that they will be superior also in great decisions.
Would to heaven they would authorize you to take measures for transferring the debt of this country to Holland, before you leave Europe.
By one of the 23d of October, he proposed to me that Mr. Adams and myself should authorize him to go to Brussels on the subject he explains to you.
The Venetians, Russians and Austrians, indeed, are pecking at the Turks, but I suppose it is only to keep alive pretensions which may authorize the commencement of hostilities when it shall suit them.
