The preservation of the Constitution from infraction is the President's highest duty.
When judiciously and properly exercised, the Constitution itself may be saved from infraction and the rights of all preserved and protected.
The Burnetts were committed to answer for this infraction of the law and finally were adequately punished.
And it was to preserve substantially and ultimately our connection with the Union that induced us to acquiesce in the partial infraction of it by our Governor's refusal of the troops required.
Rivalry of jurisdiction paralyzed the law and there was perpetual friction over the veriest trifles, for the tribunal was always on the watch to resist the minutest infraction of its prerogatives or disregard of its dignity.
The Diputados however wisely refused to open the door; the law to which they had sworn imposed heavy penalties for its infraction and they were compelled to refuse.
The power to summon a witness necessarily includes that of coercing him to testify, and this was exercised by imprisoning recalcitrants, which came to be regarded as an infraction of privilege.
They complained of an infraction of the Concordia and applied to the Bishop of Lérida for its enforcement.
Recommendations to the several States for enacting laws against the infraction of the laws of nations.
It therefore follows, that they can only be considered as pirates, whose crimes are greatly aggravated by a manifest infraction of his Danish Majesty's territorial rights.
Whether so disposed or not, neither can commit aninfraction of the other's rights, without violating a law of Nature.
It was admitted that the heavy expenditure which had been occasioned by the late troubles justified the King in asking some further supply: but strong objections were made to the augmentation of the army and to the infraction of the Test Act.
They "fenced" it with elaborate rules, and precautions against accidental transgressions, superstitiously dreading an involuntary infraction of its minutest details.
Any touch would have been a work, a formal infractionof the law.
Footnote 47: This mode of proceeding, worthy of the barbarous ages, was a new infraction of the law of nations, and of the constitutional laws of France, on the part of the ministry.
It was considered as an act of despotism and vengeance; as the first infraction of the promises made to the nation.
You were in your chamber, but your employment and the time were such as to make it no infraction of decorum to follow you thither.
Was it the infractionof a similar command, that brought so horrible a penalty upon my father?
He may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either.
Sir: Reference to the prosecution of Maria Guzman before the Justice of the Peace of Apalit for 'Infraction of Law 2098' (your file No.
Farewell," he said, "and let me recommend to you calmness and submission: for I assure you the least infraction of discipline will be punished by the governor in the severest manner.
They have their precincts to watch, and report every sort of nuisance or infraction of the law to their friend, the police captain, who sees that it is abated.
He was too deeply read in the law of nations, and regarded that august code with too much respect, not to contemplate with indignation its infraction by both the belligerents.
I have always, with the utmost zeal and the moderate abilities I possess, striven to prevent its infraction in the slightest particular.
The result of this was that if the harvest was deficient, grain was secreted and held at exorbitant prices and this infraction of the law was winked at under necessity.
If every infraction of a compact of so many parties is to be resisted at once, as a dissolution of it, none can ever be formed which would last one year.
Then she took them returning from that port, as if infected by previous infraction of blockade.
They know and value too highly the blessings of their Union, as to foreign nations and questions arising among themselves, to consider every infraction as to be met by actual resistance.
In like manner, they might declare war in the face of a treaty, and in direct infraction of it.
The case was aggravated by the open infractionof the Constitution of Dominica with which it proceeded.
Some of the hot-heads in that town (echoed by Fox later on at Westminster) chose to consider the Declaration as an infraction of Hood's promise that he would hold Toulon merely in trust for Louis XVII.
