... 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... The American Crisis Considered - Page 234by Charles Lempriere - 1861 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
| Emory Speer - Constitutional law - 1897 - 176 pages
...litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will hare ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." The views of President Jackson received the condemnation of many of the first thinkers of the time,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government...duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases pi-operly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 110 pages
...litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government...tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the i court or the judges. It is a duty from which they » may not shrink to decide cases properly brought... | |
| Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...litigation between parties in personal action, the people will have ceased to be their own masters, unless having to that extent practically resigned their Government...there in this view any assault upon the court or the jhdges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them ;... | |
| Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 pages
...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." Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, decided in 1803 (i. Cranch 137), puts, in the Socratic... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...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. SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS. 122 (November 10, 1864, Response to a Serenade — Van Buren, p. 391.) Human... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 638 pages
...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government...this view any assault upon the Court or the judges. . . . One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...litigation between parties in personal actions, the people would have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor was there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It was a duty from which they could... | |
| Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...patriotic citi/ens are desirous of having the national Nor is there in this view any assault 11 pon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to Constitution amended. While I make no decide cases properly brought before them, recommendation of... | |
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