 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...that it may be overruled and never become precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time...confess, that if the policy of the Government upon the vital questions 86 affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...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...must confess that if the policy of the government is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 1692 pages
...Scott. Do you share President Lincoln's concerns that I am going to quote here from his first inaugural: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation, the people will... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, Kevin T. McGuire - Law - 2005 - 630 pages
...irredeemably partisan when taking sides on that issue. It led Abraham Lincoln to warn, "If the policy of government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."12 Lincoln's... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...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. Nor... | |
 | Newt Gingrich - Political Science - 2006 - 308 pages
...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,...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. For Lincoln,... | |
 | Rebecca E Zietlow - Law - 2006 - 279 pages
...(Roy P. Easier, ed., 1955), cited in FINKELMAN, IMPERFECT UNION, supra note 2, at 318. suit[,] . . . [a]t the same time, the candid citizen must confess...actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rules, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2006 - 337 pages
...on the issue of slavery: "[T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government on vital questions affecting the whole people is to be...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." He... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...all paralel [sic] cases, by all other departments of the government." Nonetheless, Lincoln reasoned, "at the same time the candid citizen must confess...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... | |
 | Robert Luce - Legislation - 2006 - 768 pages
...North, even if at the same time trying to avoid criticism of the court. "The candid citizen," he said, "must confess that if the policy of the government,...instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parThe defence for electing judges, that they should be kept under the control of the people, is itself... | |
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At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that 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... 
