 | 1883 - 552 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law aud are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...and every man who by accepting office participates iu its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations... | |
 | 1883 - 548 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of governmeut, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 890 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office, participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 676 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office participates in its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | 1885 - 916 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office participates in its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1886 - 1086 sider
...the pQovernment, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and arc bound to obey St. It is the only supreme power in our system of government,...office, participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | 1903 - 658 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office, participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Lowell - 1889 - 246 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government. — Mr. JUSTICE MILLKR, in United States v. Lee, 106 US 196. AMONG the theories of jurists there is,... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1891 - 738 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office, participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy and to Copyright, 1880, by the Forum Publishing Company.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1892 - 762 sider
...officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system...office, participates in its functions, is only the more strongly bound to submit to the supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the... | |
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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. "It is... 
