Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
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... the generation which has now passed away . I belong to that generation , and lived and acted in it and with it . And the history of my life is ne- cessarily associated with the manners , habits , pur- suits 18 MEMOIR OF ROGER B. TANEY .
... the generation which has now passed away . I belong to that generation , and lived and acted in it and with it . And the history of my life is ne- cessarily associated with the manners , habits , pur- suits 18 MEMOIR OF ROGER B. TANEY .
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... lived and acted . I am sensible of the delicacy of this undertaking . An autobiography is hardly ever impartial , and I can- not hope that I am free from the general infirmity of self - love . But I will try to write my own life as if ...
... lived and acted . I am sensible of the delicacy of this undertaking . An autobiography is hardly ever impartial , and I can- not hope that I am free from the general infirmity of self - love . But I will try to write my own life as if ...
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... lived upon this estate for many generations before I was born . We have no family record showing the pre- cise time of their coming to Maryland , or the country from which they migrated . They were Roman Catho- lics 20 MEMOIR OF ROGER B ...
... lived upon this estate for many generations before I was born . We have no family record showing the pre- cise time of their coming to Maryland , or the country from which they migrated . They were Roman Catho- lics 20 MEMOIR OF ROGER B ...
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... lived to an advanced age . They had several children , - four sons and three daughters . I was the third child and the second son . The Revolution had removed all difficulty in our education upon the score of religion . For the consti ...
... lived to an advanced age . They had several children , - four sons and three daughters . I was the third child and the second son . The Revolution had removed all difficulty in our education upon the score of religion . For the consti ...
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... lived . It was the custom of the school to have a fort- night's holiday at Christmas ; and the day it was to commence was always announced by the school - master a week beforehand . The object of barring him out was to compel him to ...
... lived . It was the custom of the school to have a fort- night's holiday at Christmas ; and the day it was to commence was always announced by the school - master a week beforehand . The object of barring him out was to compel him to ...
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Page 409 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 264 - 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 577 - ... 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 265 - 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 521 - On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.
Page 630 - 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 634 - ... notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear...
Page 255 - 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 633 - Justice of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made, before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Page 402 - 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.