 | 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
...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 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
...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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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 foed by the decisions of the Supreme... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 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. At the same time the candid citizen must 121 confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people,... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - English literature - 1901 - 398 pages
...following it, being limited to that particular IXTROI). LESS. IN ENG. LIT. — 10 case, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice....upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to 295 be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made in ordinary litigation... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 760 pages
...that it might be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, could better be borne than the evils of a different practice. At the same time,...Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, was to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they were made, in ordinary... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...with the chanee 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....the policy of the government upon vital questions affooting the whole people is to be irre- fighting, the identical old questions, as to voeably fixed... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...chance that it may be overruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be liorne than could the evils of a different practice. At the...the policy of the government upon vital questions aflofting the whole people is to be irre- fighting, the identical old questions, as to voeably fixed... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 638 pages
...consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government. . . . At the same time, ... 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... | |
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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... 
