Congress can not, therefore, take out of the hands of the executive department the custody of the public property or money without an assumption of executive power and a subversion of the first principles of the Constitution.
In the words of Bishop Stubbs: "To a German race of sovereigns Spain finally owed the subversion of her national system and ancient freedom" (id.
It was then an indispensable part of his plan that the Directory should violate the constitution in order to justify a subsequent subversion of the Directory.
Hitherto you have had before you crimes of dignity: you have had before you the ruin and expulsion of great and illustrious families, the breach of solemn public treaties, the merciless pillage and total subversion of the first houses in Asia.
In vain her confessor and her attendants strove to awaken her interest to the dissatisfaction of the people with the wild projects of reform that threatened the subversion of all social order.
Joseph, and trembling lest his reforms should end in a totalsubversion of religion, had resolved, in the extremity of his distress, to become a pilgrim himself, and to visit the enemy in his own stronghold.
I confess, it is an heinous Crime to write any Thing that tends to the Subversion or Prejudice of the civil Society: But how will the Bishop make me guilty of it?
This plan was in entire harmony with the aim and spirit of those seeking the subversion of the Government, since no more fatal blow at its existence could be struck than the permanent and hostile possession of the seat of its power.
It was obvious, to men of all parties, and all ranks, that he meditated the complete subversion of English liberties.
The civil power again triumphed over that of the military, and circumstances existed which rendered the subversion of liberty very difficult.
True-hearted souls will solace their spirits with a little laughter, and never busy their brains with the subversion of Church and State government.
A disregard of this distinction would of necessity lead to the subversion of the federal system.
They involved the entire subversion of those principles on which the American Union was founded, and of the compact or Constitution of that Union.
The Manifesto went on to say that communism was not the subversion of existing principles, but their universalization.
This will serve as a key to the meaning of the next verse, which announces the subversion of Paganism in these different countries.
Such, sir, is the logic of your bill; such the impartiality towards the belligerents; such and so barefaced the subversion of the great principle of the act of May last.
But our disunion and subversion are as inevitable as the advent of the morning sun, unless some Washington, or Cincinnatus, or Brutus the First come forth, and stab the incarnate devils down, and trample their worthless bodies in the dust.
All leaders of parties are plunderers, and thus directly advocate the subversion of our liberties and the public dishonor.
On the contrary, our task is to convince them that aggression and subversionwill not be profitable routes to pursue these ends.
The consequence of his discovery was the subversion of the Turkish power, which at that time kept all Europe in alarm.
This means nothing less than a complete subversion of all scientific methods.
And I inquired into the causes of the subversion of their power, and I shunned those actions which tend to the destruction and overthrow of regal authority.
