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" If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery . . . . "
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics - Page 463
1903
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A Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and Others, Before ...

Michael Bright (Gen.), Thomas Lloyd - Federal-state controversies - 1809 - 236 pages
...issued -out of any federal court, in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may at will annul the judgment of the courts of the United States and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 5; Volume 9

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 408 pages
...issued out of any federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. If the legislatures of the several states may, at...those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a son-inn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 37

United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1838 - 850 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, aud the rights thereby acquired, the constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means 6f enforcing its laws by its own tribunal. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...issued out of any federal court in consequence of their obedience to the requisition of the said act. , If the legislatures of the several states may at will...of the courts of the United States, and destroy the right acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation...
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A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United ...

William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of every state must...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 160

Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the Constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by its own tribunals : so fatal a result must be deprecated by all ; and the people of every state must...
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Sketches of the Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief-justices of the ...

George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...United States, or destroy rights acquired under those judgments. " If it were otherwise," he remarks, " the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery;...laws, by the instrumentality of its own tribunals." The supremacy of the Federal Judiciary over the State tribunals in cases of constitutional construction,...
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A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty: And on the Writ of ..., Volume 961

Rollin Carlos Hurd - Extradition - 1858 - 714 pages
...execution of the judgment. Chief Justice Marshall, in delivering the opinion of the court, observed, that 'if the legislatures of the several states may, at...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals.' He further remarked, "if the ultimate right to determine the jurisdiction of the courts of the Union...
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A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity ..., Volume 1

Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...secure and attain the ends proposed. Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 539. 42. If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 63

Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...enacted by a State and were repugnant to the Constitution, were null and void. In one case he said: " If the legislatures of the several States may at will...laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. Before these decisions much uncertainty existed and there was considerable variance of opinion among...
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