...believed was terribly wrong and badly misinterpreted the US Constitution. Here is what Lincoln said: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant ihey are made in ordinary litigation between panics in personal actions UK people will have ceased...

...made clear his disdain for the decision and, in his inaugural address, his intention to ignore it: The candid citizen must confess that if the policy...affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in...

...believed was terribly wrong and badly misinterpreted the US Constitution. Here is what Lincoln said: "If the policy- of the government upon vital questions...to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Coun, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parlies in personal actions ilie people...

...address, Lincoln explained that a judicial decision bound only the parties to the lawsuit, and declared that if the "policy of the government, upon vital...affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, . . . the people will have ceased to be their...

...challenged John Marshall's doctrine of judicial supremacy as a mortal threat to democracy itself: ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decision of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties...

...inaugural address. The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon final questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, that people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their...

...that it be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time...will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor...

...it may be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time...will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.84 Four...

...position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court....The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned...

...Fathers said it was and it cannot be amended without the will of the people. President Lincoln warned, "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...