| Christopher Wolfe - Law - 1996 - 246 pages
...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 that eminent tribunal." Lincoln took a middle position on the question of the authority of Supreme Court precedents: "judicial... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Political Science - 1996 - 688 pages
...opposed to the written text. The people then cease, as Abraham Lincoln said, "to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their...government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. "" 1. Speech at Elmira, New York (May 3, 1907). 2. Wolman v. Waller, 433 US 229, 263 (1977); Justice... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Political Science - 1996 - 718 pages
...written text. The people then cease, as Abraham Lincoln said, 'to be their own rulers, having, to dial extent, practically resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal. •" 1. Speech at Hmira, New York (May 3, 1907). 2. Wolman v. Water, 433 US 229, 263 (1977); Justice... | |
| William Bondy - Separation of powers - 1998 - 186 pages
...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 that eminent tribunal." *4 Correspondence, 316, 317. clared a law of Georgia forbidding white persons to reside within the... | |
| Albert R. Jonsen, Robert M. Veatch, LeRoy Walters - Medical - 1999 - 524 pages
...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 that eminent tribunal (4 Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 262, 268 )1963]). Thus even if the Court had intended... | |
| Mark E. Brandon - History - 1998 - 278 pages
...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 that eminent tribunal." 2 " So framed, Lincoln's position parted company with Marshall's in two important respects. First,... | |
| Larry Alexander - Law - 2001 - 336 pages
...irrevocably 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 into the hands of that eminent tribunal."101 Lincoln had in mind, of course, the Supreme Court's infamous decision in Dred Scott v.... | |
| Michael J. Perry - Law - 2001 - 286 pages
...irrevocably 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 into the hands of that eminent tribunal." 105 Lincoln had in mind, of course, the Supreme Court's infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford.... | |
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