...Fathers said it was and cannot be amended with out the will of the people. President Lincoln said: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court ... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." Abraham Lincoln also warned, "Don't interfere with...

...that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time,...in personal actions, the people will have ceased to Ix; their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of...

...judgments should be enforced as to the parties immediately involved. "At the same time," he continued: [T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.24 Lincoln's...

...more starkly challenged the justices' claim to supremacy in matters of constitutional interpretation: If the policy of the government upon vital questions...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Yet in...

...who, living with the Dred Scott decision, had a few reservations about a too strong Supreme Court: If the policy of the Government upon vital questions,...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers. The years following the Civil War show that Supreme Court decisions are rarely "irrevocably fixed."...

...permitted to control the Congress or the Executive." Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861: "...the candid citizen must confess that if the policy...they are made in ordinary litigation between parties to personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically...

...Inaugural Address (Appendix C) that At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the whole policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting...between parties, in personal actions, the people will bare ceased, to be "Jefferson's letter to the prosecutor in the Burr treason case, 2 June 1807. their...

...point, the President is independent of bom," In a similar vein President Lincoln wrote: " П Jf toe policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting...they are made in ordinary litigation between parties to personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically...

...Inaugural speech, critiqued the Infamous Dred Scott Decision of the US Supreme Court when he said, ". . . The candid citizen must confess that if the policy...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...

...elective control," unquote. And Abraham Lincoln said in his first inaugural address in 1861, quote, "The candid citizen must confess that if the policy...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...