Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
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... feel that I have sufficiently vindicated the character of the Chief Justice without doing so . Get but the truth once uttered , and ' tis like A star new born , that drops into its place , And which , once circling in its placid round ...
... feel that I have sufficiently vindicated the character of the Chief Justice without doing so . Get but the truth once uttered , and ' tis like A star new born , that drops into its place , And which , once circling in its placid round ...
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... feel the effect of her teaching to this hour . So much for my parents and parentage . My parents both lived to an advanced age . They had several children , -four sons and three daughters . I was the third child and the second son . The ...
... feel the effect of her teaching to this hour . So much for my parents and parentage . My parents both lived to an advanced age . They had several children , -four sons and three daughters . I was the third child and the second son . The ...
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... feeling of mortification made matters worse . Fortunately , my speech had been so well committed to memory , that I went through with- out the aid of the prompter . But the pathos of leave- taking from the professors and my classmates ...
... feeling of mortification made matters worse . Fortunately , my speech had been so well committed to memory , that I went through with- out the aid of the prompter . But the pathos of leave- taking from the professors and my classmates ...
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... feel tired of this idle life , and impatient to begin the study of the law . It was the profession my father had always desired me to follow , and which I myself preferred . Accordingly , in the spring of 1796 , I went to Annapolis , to ...
... feel tired of this idle life , and impatient to begin the study of the law . It was the profession my father had always desired me to follow , and which I myself preferred . Accordingly , in the spring of 1796 , I went to Annapolis , to ...
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... feel any superiority of genius or information over the other . He afterwards became eminent at the bar ; but in- heriting , by the death of his father , a large landed estate , and attached to a country life , he gradually withdrew ...
... feel any superiority of genius or information over the other . He afterwards became eminent at the bar ; but in- heriting , by the death of his father , a large landed estate , and attached to a country life , he gradually withdrew ...
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Page 579 - ... so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro may justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 269 - Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.
Page 523 - ... in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.
Page 632 - If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 268 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 259 - It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of an individual WITHOUT ITS CONSENT. This is the general sense, and the general practice of mankind; and the exemption, as one of the attributes of sovereignty, is now enjoyed by the government of every State in the Union.
Page 521 - The only matter in issue before the court, therefore, is, whether the descendants of such slaves, when they shall be emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word citizen is used in the Constitution of the United States.
Page 518 - State may still confer them upon an alien, or any one it thinks proper, or upon any class or description of persons ; yet he would not be a citizen in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution of the United States...
Page 404 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 411 - I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.