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GENTLEMEN: Before the Senate adjourns, I desire to return my thanks for the very kind and complimentary resolution unanimously passed on Saturday last, and to assure the Senate that so long as I shall have the honor of continuing Presiding Officer, my highest ambition will be to retain the personal regard and confidence of my colleagues. In pursuance of the resolution adopted on Saturday last, I now declare the Senate adjourned sine die
— The Congressional globe, 33rd United States Congress (1853-04-11)
A mistake, as it seems to me, is none the less a mistake because it is made deliberately in the pursuance of a mistaken intention.
— Lord Russell of Killowen, C.J., Linforth v. Butler (1898), L. R. 1 Q. B. D. 120.
Olaus Magnus (de Gentibus Septentrionalibus) tells a like story of a northern king, who was hanged in pursuance of his own sentence: But it don't appear that he was afterwards made a saint.
— Year-book of 8 H. 6., p. 197, n. (The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904))
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power … in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.
william howard taft— William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (1916), chapter 6, p. 139–40.
