... 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
| Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1913 - 286 pages
...fixed by decis19ns of the Supreme Court, . . . 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 courts or the judges." Lincoln actually applied in successful fashion the principle of the recall in... | |
| New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1302 pages
...irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the people will cease to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the courts or their judges." But whether there... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - Democracy - 1913 - 24 pages
...litigation between the 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 the eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the courts or the judges. It is a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 218 pages
...litigation between parties in personal actions, the 30 people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government...assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty ff^n which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of... | |
| John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 314 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 tribuna1. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1917 - 586 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 properl y brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions... | |
| Ella R. Shaeffer - Freedom of religion - 1917 - 234 pages
..."A doctrine under which Abraham Lincoln said, '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.' "The Supreme Court of the United States is not the supreme tribunal in the United States. "The government... | |
| Science - 1917 - 876 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. Canada has sought to lessen the chances of a miscarriage of justice in cases between private individuais... | |
| Jackson Harvey Ralston - Constitutional law - 1919 - 88 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. Nor is 21 there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not... | |
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