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" When it was proposed to vote indemnity to military officers, 149 Johnson expressed doubts as to whether an indemnity act would be sanctioned by the court and opposed prohibiting courts from entertaining jurisdiction in the case. He felt that we should go to the verge of the Constitution in protecting officers, in all acts they honestly believed necessary to protect the government from the effort to destroy it, but this bill went too far and prevented an injured citizen from suing, in a civil ...tribunal, any person who acted under presi dential authority. Congress assumed to say that all the President s acts are legal and are legally performed and, even if Congress is without power to pass such a law constitutionally, that the Court shall not examine it. Though he appreciated the importance of the Court 145 On March 20. " 6 On March 9. 147 In a speech on the printing of the Congressional Globe, on February 8, which he thought ought to be printed by the government were it not for the existing contract.
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