 | Law - 1912 - 516 pages
...like the great patriot and lawyer he was, he said: "It is a duty from which they (the Supreme Court) may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before...if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.7' Then to distinguish between a decision of the court and the policy of a law; and to distinguish... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Democracy - 1913 - 24 pages
...Government into the hands of the eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the courts or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. From these 'extracts we may see that Lincoln held that the courts had no right to lay down a rule of... | |
 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 454 pages
...having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or...not shrink to decide cases properly brought before existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - Constitutional law - 1915 - 286 pages
...time the policy of the government on the question of slavery. On this point he expressly states: "Xor is there in this view any assault upon the court or...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes." RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AS THE GUARANTOR OF LIBERTY Strong as the temptation was, in the great... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1915 - 608 pages
...grapes of thorns or figs from thistles?" I know that Mr. Lincoln in his inaugural address declared: "One section of our country believes slavery is right...and ought to be extended, while the other believes slavery is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." But I also know... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 218 pages
...having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty ff^n which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 314 pages
...having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribuna1. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. Other utterances of Lincoln might be cited which show that he regarded the independence of the judiciary... | |
 | John Thomas Richards - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 312 pages
...having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. Other utterances of Lincoln might be cited which show that he regarded the independence of the judiciary... | |
 | William Howard Taft - Executive power - 1916 - 166 pages
...having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. I do not intend to dispute the attitude of these distinguished men, although we find that the attitude... | |
 | Public Service Commission of Washington - Public utilities - 1916 - 1554 pages
...the thought of Abraham Lincoln when in his first inaugural address, speaking about judges, he said: "It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide...is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decision to political purposes." To a certain extent the Interstate Commerce Commission has been set... | |
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... decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of... 
