| Law - 1875 - 870 pages
...decisions of the supreme court are binding on the parties to the suits in which they were rendered, adds : "At the same time the candid citizen must confess,...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. "f Professor... | |
| Kenneth McIntosh - Constitutional history - 1877 - 208 pages
...the dominant party toward the Supreme Court. "The candid citizen must confess," said Mr. Lincoln, " that if the policy of the government upon vital questions,...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court tlie instanTthey are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will... | |
| Orators - 1880 - 698 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,...questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably .ixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...it may be overruled, and never become a precedent tor o.her cases, can better be borne than co'ild the evils of a different practice. At the same time...people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having li that extent practically resigned their government into the hands ofthat eminent tribunal. Nor is... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 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... | |
| Frank Gaylord Cook - 1882 - 474 pages
...Address Pres. Lincoln l861 said : "The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Gov't upon vital questions, affecting the whole people,...fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant thev are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased... | |
| George Sewall Boutwell - Presidential candidates - 1884 - 264 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...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... | |
| Richard Whitehead Young - Church and state - 1885 - 30 pages
...an inferior station. Their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, in his inaugural address, said: At the game time, the candid citizen must confess that if 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. It will... | |
| United States - 1894 - 580 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... | |
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