 | John A. Marini, Ken Masugi - Political Science - 2005 - 406 pages
...to be what Abraham Lincoln had in mind when he remarked in his First 1naugural, March 4, 1861 that 1 do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional...questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do 1 deny that such decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object... | |
 | Mark Sutherland, Dave Meyer, William J. Federer - Political Science - 2005 - 246 pages
...slaves were not citizens, but property. In his First Inaugural, March 4,1861, Abraham Lincoln alluded: "I do not forget the 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 the Government upon vital questions... | |
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 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...impossible ; the rule of a majority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So tlfct, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism,...object of that suit, while they are also entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government;... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...many respects typical. Acknowledging that the Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional questions "must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit," he nonetheless insisted that they commanded no more than "very high respect and consideration, in all... | |
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Unanimity is impossible ; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. 
