 | Philippines - Gazettes - 1989 - 706 pages
...of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free...submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections" (319 US 625, 638, 87 L. ed. 1638, (Italics supplied). In case of any doubt which may be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1943 - 898 pages
...of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free...submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. " Section 7 of House Joint Resolution 359, approved December 22, 1942, 56 Stat. 1074, 36... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1943 - 872 pages
...of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free...submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. " Section 7 of House Joint Resolution 359, approved December 22, 1942, 56 Stat. 1074, 36... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 844 pages
...property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other /«;«/»;montai rights, may not be submitted to vote ; they depend on the outcome of no elections"11 [Emphasis ours.] And again, "If there is any fixed star in our national constellation,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1955 - 674 pages
...of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free...submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." 12 And, after a close analysis of the reasoning in the Gobitis case, he said: "If there... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate procedure - 1957 - 1114 pages
...beyond the reach of any majority, save by constitutional amendment. In Mr. Justice Jackson's phrase, 'One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free...submitted to vote ; they depend on the outcome of no elections' (West Virginia State Board of Education \: Harncttc, 31!) I". S. «24, 638 (1943))." Id.... | |
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's... 
