 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will...resigned their government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.33 So, while individual court decisions or laws may be bad, and the people are free to change... | |
 | Colton C. Campbell, John F. Stack - Law - 2001 - 344 pages
...government policy on "vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed" by the Court, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal" (Richardson 1 897, vol. 7, 3210). Dred Scott was eventually overturned by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth,... | |
 | Robert P. George - History - 2000 - 222 pages
...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will...rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." In this light we might see the Court as having... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers . . ." l Soon Taney defied Lincoln when, sitting as a circuit judge in ex parte Merryman, he denied... | |
 | Albert W. Alschuler - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 348 pages
...decisions of the Supreme Court, . . . the people will have ceased to be dieir own rulers, having to dial extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. lvl What Lincoln said about the Supreme Court might be said of every other law-giving or law-settling... | |
 | Sotirios A. Barber, Robert P. George - Law - 2001 - 354 pages
...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will...resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.60 I would suggest that the proper response of pro-life citizens to the call by Supreme Court... | |
 | Roland Adickes - Political Science - 2017 - 175 pages
...irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will...practically resigned their Government into the hands ofthat eminent tribunal. More about this problem in the next chapter. Jackson, in his veto message,... | |
 | Rogan Kersh - History - 2001 - 384 pages
...people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made ... the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." 85 The Court played a key part in affirming basic American principles, including union, 86 but Justices... | |
 | Ian Shapiro - Law - 2001 - 316 pages
...questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers,...Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." A. Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), reprinted in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents... | |
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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 made, in ordinary litigation between... 
