 | Richard A. Viguerie - Political Science - 2006 - 286 pages
...may twist and shape into any form they please." - Thomas Jefferson, on the idea of judicial activism "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions...decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers." - Abraham Lincoln A nyone who surveys the world... | |
 | Paul Sharp - Criminal justice, Administration of - 2006 - 417 pages
...regarding the Court's Constitutional position: "As Abraham Lincoln warned in his First Inaugural Address, '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, having to that extent, practically resigned their government... | |
 | Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, Daniel Galvin - Political Science - 2006 - 352 pages
...Although the Dred Scott decision provoked Abraham Lincoln to proclaim that democracy would be lost "if the policy of the government, upon vital questions...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," his point was precisely that the Court, acting on behalf of the Democratic majorities that had controlled... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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...confess that if the policy of the Government upon the vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme... | |
 | Paul Sharp - 2006 - 418 pages
...regarding the Court's Constitutional position: "As Abraham Lincoln warned in his First Inaugural Address, 'if the policy of the government, upon vital questions,...to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent, practically resigned... | |
 | Mark A. Graber - History - 2006 - 300 pages
...be decided by the Supreme Court," his first inaugural declared: if the policy of the government ... is to be irrevocably fixed by 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... | |
 | Richard Bellamy - Political Science - 2007 - 280 pages
...critique was made most famously and forcefully by Lincoln in his first inaugural address. As he put it: 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.91 Lincoln's... | |
 | Steven G. Calabresi - Political Science - 2007 - 360 pages
...intentions of those who had written, proposed, and ratified it, Lincoln argued that if the policy of government upon vital questions affecting the whole...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that emminent tribunal.31 Once... | |
 | Christian G. Fritz - History - 2007
...1864, Roy P. Easier, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., 1953), IV:268 (observing that "if the policy of the government, upon vital...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their... | |
 | Laura Ingraham - Political Science - 2008 - 376 pages
...judicial independence in the first place. Abraham Lincoln put it well in his First Inaugural Address: "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." 13 We are perilously close to that point now. Nancy... | |
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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... 
