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
| United States. Department of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1918 - 776 pages
...procedure. In United States v. Lee (106 US, 196, 220) it was said: No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that...are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. I hold (a) that the appraisements by the acting appraisers at Ranier were made in conformity with law... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1897 - 396 pages
...sound. Justice Miller, in Lee vs. The United States, says : " 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 officials of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and bound to... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1971 - 662 pages
...laws and not of men"! Congress itself has obeyed the courts.822 Long since the Supreme Court said that "no officer of the law may set that law at defiance...lowest are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it."*2* This has been the premise on which courts have repeatedly issued their mandates to administrative... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1971 - 472 pages
...termination or conversion is required. THE PERSONNEL LAWS AS AN EXPRESSION OF NATIONAL POLICY "All officers of the government, from the highest to the...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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