 No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.  Albany Law Journal - Page 171883Full view - About this book
 | John Goode - Political Science - 1906 - 282 pages
...uttered words which deserve to live forever when he said, 'No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...the Government from the highest to the lowest are but creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government.'... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1908 - 2032 pages
...How., 73, 78; US r. Stewart, ibid., 79; Marbury r. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. l'oiri'1-н of officers. — All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are but agents with delegated powere, and if they act beyond the scope of their delegated powers their... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1908 - 1014 pages
..."Arlington case", in which he declared that " no man in this country is so high that he is above the law and no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity." Three addresses delivered by the justice are also included as appendixes. The first, at the centennial... | |
 | Oklahoma Corporation Commission - Communication and traffic - 1919 - 644 pages
...was brought against agents of the government and could not be prosecuted in the State Court, since all the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, were creatures of law, and within their proper spheres exercised only such powers as were delegated... | |
 | William Draper Lewis - Judges - 1909 - 650 pages
...eloquent than when he writes, in United States vs. Lee: 40 No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 404 pages
...Supreme Court, that I ask your attention to their utterance : "No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. "It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man, who by accepting office participates in its functions, is only the more... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 900 pages
...without jnst compensation. . . . Xo man in this county is so high that he is above the law. Xo oAeer of the law may set that law at defiance, with impunity....officers of the Government, from the highest to the low aro creatures of that law and are bound to obey it. . . . It can1*', then, that when, in a suit... | |
 | Ernst Freund - Administrative law - 1911 - 718 pages
...Carter. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 US 168, 26 L. Ed. 377. No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
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