 | Emory Speer - Constitutional law - 1897 - 176 pages
...Dred Scott decision, uses this language : '' The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of government upon vital questions affecting the whole...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will hare ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1897 - 1432 pages
...inaugural message. President Lincoln, in speaking of the Supreme •Court of the United States, said: "The candid citizen must confess that if the policy...affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court the instant •they are made, as in ordinary decisions between parties... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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 the decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1898 - 168 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 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,...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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,...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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,...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 pages
...them is brought before the court, then, in the words of Mr. Lincoln, in his first Inaugural Message, "the candid citizen must confess that if the policy...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Christopher L. Eisgruber - Law - 2001 - 290 pages
...Sandford decision and promised to defy it. Second, in his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln declared, "if the policy of the government upon vital questions...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... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - History - 2001 - 806 pages
...Court, hut he did think it appropriate to quote a sentence from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address: "At the same time, the candid citizen must confess...vital questions affecting the whole people, is to he irrevocahly fixed hy decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation... | |
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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... 
