Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
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... takes his seat first in the Circuit Court at Baltimore - Declines to instruct grand juries , as a useless form - Takes his seat in the Supreme Court for the first time - His judicial administration a reaction CONTENTS . xiii.
... takes his seat first in the Circuit Court at Baltimore - Declines to instruct grand juries , as a useless form - Takes his seat in the Supreme Court for the first time - His judicial administration a reaction CONTENTS . xiii.
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... jury who tried the cause probably never heard of it before they were empanelled , and had no knowledge whatever of the parties , except what they gathered from the testimony . There was every se- curity , therefore , for an impartial ...
... jury who tried the cause probably never heard of it before they were empanelled , and had no knowledge whatever of the parties , except what they gathered from the testimony . There was every se- curity , therefore , for an impartial ...
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... jury . But these very defects arose in some measure from the fulness of his legal knowledge . He had an iron memory , and forgot nothing that he had read ; and he had read a great deal on every branch of the law , and took pleasure in ...
... jury . But these very defects arose in some measure from the fulness of his legal knowledge . He had an iron memory , and forgot nothing that he had read ; and he had read a great deal on every branch of the law , and took pleasure in ...
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... jury called to the evidence which might operate in his favor as well as that against him . Nor was any attempt made to take from it by argument the weight to which it was justly entitled . He was strong in his attachments , and ready to ...
... jury called to the evidence which might operate in his favor as well as that against him . Nor was any attempt made to take from it by argument the weight to which it was justly entitled . He was strong in his attachments , and ready to ...
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... jury , composed of citizens of the town , were regularly summoned to attend at the stated terms of the Court . I knew the mayor , who was a good - natured old gen- tleman and had never studied law ; and I was quite sure that I knew more ...
... jury , composed of citizens of the town , were regularly summoned to attend at the stated terms of the Court . I knew the mayor , who was a good - natured old gen- tleman and had never studied law ; and I was quite sure that I knew more ...
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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 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 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 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 579 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
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 566 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Page 567 - The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 268 - 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. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the Constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary act.
Page 253 - The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed...