Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report Relative to Executive Patronage: Read in Senate, March 25, 1822
The peculiar business of legislation, is to pass laws for the reguv lation and guidance of all who are concerned in the administration of the government, and the benefit of the people Common law is an auxiliary to statute law, and is only to be called upon in ca ses not particularly provided for by the statute. Those official powers, which are vested by act ofthe legislature and common law principles only, are not constitutional powers, and therefore fit objects of legislation.
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