How to use "proper" in a sentence

And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand un repealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it - break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections.

Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper

He had woken because the bed was too comfortable; he had not slept in a proper bed for twenty years

Bureau men carried the proper credentials

I did not know it, but that was the last proper dinner I would eat for many strange and terrible days.