Authors: William Howard Taft

1917–1929

Myers v. United States

Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/52/. Mr. Chief Justice Taft delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether under the Constitution the president

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Election of 1912
1917–1929

The Judiciary and Progress Address at Toledo, Ohio

SOURCE:  “The Judiciary and Progress : Address of President Taft, Toledo, Ohio, Friday Evening, March 8, 1912.” Washington, D.C.:  G.O.P., 1912, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library:  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044053409975&view=1up&seq=3&skin=2021

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Election of 1912
1917–1929

Popular Government

Source: William H. Taft, Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence, and Its Perils (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913), 96—115. There is one other proposed reform that has been associated

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1917–1929

Myers v. US

Source: United States Reports. Volume 272, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1926 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927), 106,109–110,115–18, 177. Mr. Chief Justice Taft delivered the

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1917–1929

On the Source of Executive Power

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, ed., Stephen Brennan (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011), 304–10; William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University

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1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1911)

William Howard Taft, “William H. Taft Papers: Series 9: Speeches, Articles, and Messages. 1850-1929; Subseries 9A: 1901-1920; Vol. 26, 1911 Nov. 15-1912 Jan. 20,” in Public Papers of the Presidents

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Election of 1912
1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1910)

William Howard Taft, “William H. Taft Papers: Series 9: Speeches, Articles, and Messages. 1850-1929; Subseries 9A: 1901-1920; Vol. 20, 1910 Dec. 6-1911 Feb. 14,” in Public Papers of the Presidents

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1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1909)

William Howard Taft, “William H. Taft Papers: Series 9: Speeches, Articles, and Messages. 1850-1929; Subseries 9A: 1901-1920; Vol. 17, 1909 Nov. 11-1910 Feb. 28,” in Public Papers of the Presidents

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Election of 1912
1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1909)

William Howard Taft, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207216 My Fellow-Citizens: ANYONE who has taken the oath I have just taken

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