 | Rogan Kersh - History - 2001 - 388 pages
...From his first inaugural address: "The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the whole government upon vital questions, affecting the whole...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... | |
 | Sotirios A. Barber, Robert P. George - Law - 2001 - 354 pages
...these presidents believed and acted on the sentiment best expressed by Lincoln, that "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."34 Lincoln... | |
 | John Albert Murley, John Alvis - Political Science - 2002 - 310 pages
...campaign against the Supreme Court Constitution, with Lincoln's wellknown statement in the First Inaugural that: "If the policy of the government, upon vital...in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Law - 2002 - 326 pages
...mean that "the policy of the government, upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, [could] be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,...in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions." And in that event, said Lincoln, "the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having,... | |
 | Sabas H. Whittaker M. F. a., Sabas Whittaker, M.F.A. - African Americans - 2003 - 367 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... | |
 | Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson - Education - 2004 - 284 pages
...Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both."57 Lincoln declared, "If the policy of the government, upon vital questions...in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...respect and consideration, in all paralel [sic] cases, by all other departments of the government." But the "candid citizen must confess that if the policy...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 Singh - Political Science - 2003 - 364 pages
...the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please'. In 1861, another complained 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'. And in 1937, it was protested that 'the Court . .... | |
 | Paul O. Carrese - Law - 2010 - 350 pages
...FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment." He also cites Lincoln's warning, in opposing Dred Scott (1857), that "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." 50 The plurality or majority reasoning about a constitutional... | |
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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... 
