 | American essays - 1911 - 994 pages
...Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than that would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.' Judge Douglas asserted that a political issue based upon the criticism of this single decision involved... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances. That... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances. That... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it, Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances. That... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions arc of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances. That... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. 'We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. " Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according to circumstances. That... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according to circumstances. That... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred. Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according to circumstances. That... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according to circumstances. That... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him ? . . . But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the...have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it." The condition of the black man, Lincoln asserted, is worse now than at the time of the Declaration... | |
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But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it, has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. 
