Meanings of public exigency in English

But here is a public exigency, and the remedy should be proportioned to the exigency.

Men of experience, dignity, and conservatism, they voluntarily gave way before the press of public exigency.

No public exigency requires it.

Do I demand of you, my fellow-placemen and brother-pensioners, that you should sacrifice any part of your stipends to the public exigency?

The next day the first gentleman telegraphed that he had changed his mind, and now thought the legal-tender bill peremptorily demanded by public exigency.

The public exigencies are the masters of all such laws.

The public exigencies do not admit of delay.

The patriotism of the people has placed at the disposal of the government the large means demanded by the public exigencies.

His business was with the finances,-toraise money for the public exigencies; and in this business he never had a superior.

The Constitution has given, expressly, to Congress the right of raising revenue and of determining the sum the public exigencies will require.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Public exigency at the outset of the Government, without direct legislative authority, led to the use of banks as fiscal aids to the Treasury.