dec 12, 1833 - Message declining to comply with Senate request of 12/11/1833 for document on removing Treasury funds from Bank of United States. “I feel constrained, therefore, by a proper sense of my own self-respect, and of the rights secured by the constitution to the Executive branch of the Government, to decline a compliance with your request.”
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dec 12, 1833
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