 The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.  Conservative Essays, Legal and Political - Page 55by Samuel Smith Nicholas - 1865 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 514 pages
...that « every right, when withheld, muft have a remedy, and « every injury its proper redrefs." The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly ceafe to deferve this high appellation, if the laws furnifh... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...England, that every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress." The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1830 - 580 pages
...injury. — One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection." • • • • "The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if tile laws furnish... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...England that every right when withheld must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress." The government of the United States has been emphatically ' termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...England, that every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress. ' " The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...England, that every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress." The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation if the laws furnish... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...the respectful form of a petition, but he never fails to comply with the judgment of his court. "The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation if the laws furnish... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 320 pages
...right there is a legal remedy, when that right is invaded or withheld. The opinion then proceeded: "The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation if the laws furnish... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 2042 pages
...autocrat. 'Our government cannot be reduced to a bureaucracy. Chief Justice Marshall said that the government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws and not of men ; and It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 758 pages
...England, that every right, when withheld, must have a remedy, and every injurv its proper redress." The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish... | |
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