 | 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
...with the chance 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....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... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...with the chance 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....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 - 266 pages
...with the chance 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....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... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...parallel cases by all departments of the government. . . . But if the policy of the government, upon the vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the SuMR. MADISON'S OPINION. 235 preme Court the moment they are made, as in ordinary... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. & Mr. Seward proposed to amend it as follows : " At the same time, the candid citizen must confess...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, made in the ordinary course of litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...with the chance 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....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... | |
 | Frederick W. Osborn - Recitations - 1890 - 68 pages
...with the chance 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....same time the candid citizen must confess that if the p<~' ' of the Government upon the vital question affecting the \ e people is to be irrevocably fixed... | |
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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 in ordinary litigation between parties... 
