 | Cassius Marcellus Clay - History - 1848 - 550 pages
...jailors, hangmen, and grave-diggers are to be elected annually, biennially, or for a longer term of years. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are to be chosen at the polls ; the country must be harassed from day to day, and from year to year, with... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 678 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language... | |
 | William Swan Plumer - Summary of the Law (Theology) - 1864 - 648 pages
...anointed, and owned by the people as their king. 2 Kings xi. 12, 14. 2. It is the duty of all men to treat all the officers of the government from the highest to the lowest with respect, and to give to each the honour that is his due, never using reviling or railing language... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...Chief Justice Carter. Kilboum v. Thompson, 103 U. 8.168. No man in this country is so high that be is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of governmeut, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...Representatives by Chief Justice Carter. KUbourn v. Tliompson, 103 U. S.168. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. AD the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law aud are... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...action cannot be questioned by any authority or in any place.5 The language, "No man in the country is so high that he is above the law, no officer of the law may set the law at defiance with impunity," quoted from United States v. Lee," is not in conflict with the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1902 pages
...included within the survey, it seems to me a case is disclosed for the interposition of the courts. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powers, and if they act beyond the scope of those delegated powers their... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...which the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right;" "that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law; no officer of...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where congress has provided, the United States cannot... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 840 pages
...the law gives him for the protection and enforcement of that right ; " " that no man in this country is so high that he is above the law ; no officer of...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it." Upon examination of the doctrine that, except where Congress has provided, the United States cannot... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 428 pages
...solid foundation of principle the exemption of liability from suit rests. * * * No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. Courts of justice are established not only to decide upon the controverted rights of the citizens as... | |
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No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. 
