... 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
| William E. Leuchtenburg - History - 1996 - 363 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 Neither the President nor Congress, Roosevelt planned to say, could "stand idly by and . . . permit... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Political Science - 1996 - 688 pages
...opposed to the written text. The people then cease, as Abraham Lincoln said, "to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their...government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. "" 1. Speech at Elmira, New York (May 3, 1907). 2. Wolman v. Waller, 433 US 229, 263 (1977); Justice... | |
| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1996 - 246 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." Lincoln took a middle position on the question of the authority of Supreme Court precedents: "judicial... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Political Science - 1996 - 718 pages
...written text. The people then cease, as Abraham Lincoln said, 'to be their own rulers, having, to dial extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. •" 1. Speech at Hmira, New York (May 3, 1907). 2. Wolman v. Water, 433 US 229, 263 (1977); Justice... | |
| Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 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." 2 " So framed, Lincoln's position parted company with Marshall's in two important respects. First,... | |
| Albert R. Jonsen, Robert M. Veatch, LeRoy Walters - Medical - 1999 - 524 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 (4 Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 262, 268 )1963]). Thus even if the Court had intended... | |
| William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 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." *4 Correspondence, 316, 317. clared a law of Georgia forbidding white persons to reside within the... | |
| Larry Alexander - Law - 2001 - 336 pages
...irrevocably 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 into the hands of that eminent tribunal."101 Lincoln had in mind, of course, the Supreme Court's infamous decision in Dred Scott v.... | |
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